Footprints of NONSentient Design Inside the Human Genome
[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was written by A.P. staff
scientist Will Brooks, who holds a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from
the University of Alabama at Birmingham.] In the May 11, 2010
issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(PNAS), John Avise authored a paper titled “Footprints of
Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome” (Avise, 2010). In
this article, Avise highlighted several alleged evidences from
the human genome which, according to him, prove it could not
have been created by intelligent design, but rather must be a
product of natural selection over countless years of time. The
author calls his evidence an “argument from imperfection.” The
thesis for his argument in favor of evolution is that the human
genome, while undeniably complex, is riddled with errors and
imperfections. Avise contends that the simple presence of these
alleged fallibilities argues against an omnipotent Creator and,
instead, is evidence for a nonsen