HBP1 pseudogene function

‘Pseudogenes’: Evidence of Human Evolution?

by Bruce Lawrence

“Junk” DNA has often been cited as proof of humans and apes sharing a common ancestor. However, new studies indicate it actually represents a complex new layer in the flow of genetic information.

‘Pseudogene’ means ‘false gene’. Scientists coined the term for the many things they were finding that looked like protein-coding genes but were not used to make proteins. In the evolutionary mind, a pseudogene is a broken gene which once coded for a protein. Supposedly, mutations, i.e. copying mistakes, crippled the gene at some time in the past. Thus, a pseudogene was considered to be a form of ‘junk’ DNA.

Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas share some pseudogenes. Treating them as errors, evolutionists have argued that they must have come from a common ancestor. They say it is unreasonable to believe that the same mistake arose independently in each by chance, or that God intentionally created the same purposeless genes in humans and non-human primates.^1,2

However, are pseudogenes actually useless, i.e. junk DNA? If they are not mistakes, but are functional, then the whole ‘shared mistakes’ argument collapse

Humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas share some pseudogenes. Treating them as errors, evolutionists have argued that they must have come from a common ancestor.

By Bruce Lawrence

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"Junk" DNA has often been cited as proof of humans and apes sharing a common ancestor.

However, new studies indicate it actually represents a complex new layer in the flow of genetic information.https://t.co/OBCV6YkgDv

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