The Epigenome: Evolution's Newest Nightmare The epigenome looks
like it could be the evolutionists' newest nightmare -- and the
latest icon of intelligent design. Back in the 1950s, the genome
coded in DNA could well have finished off Darwin. Its digital
code, faithfully copied and reproduced by a host of molecular
machines, was not the kind of sophistication that Darwinian
theory expected, or seemed capable of explaining. Nevertheless,
fancy footwork and rhetorical swordsmanship has kept the theory
in a standoff with versions of ID for some sixty years. Enter
the epigenome, with its codes, upon codes, upon codes. Discovery
Institute's Richard Sternberg has made this the focus of his
research lately and, as Casey described the other day, it's also
the subject of a new book based on Sternberg's work, by Tom
Woodward and James Gills, The Mysterious Epigenome: What Lies
Beyond DNA. [Editors note: CSC Fellows Michael Behe and Richard
Sternberg will join Tom Woodward and James Gills to speak at a
conference about