Educating an Intelligent Design Creationist: The Specificity of DNA Binding Proteins

I'm replying to a post by andyjones (More and more) Function, the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE. This was the fourth post in a series and I'm working my way through five issues that Intelligent Design Creationists need to understand. The first two were "Pervasive Transcription" and "Rare Transcripts."

Educating an Intelligent Design Creationist: Introduction
Educating an Intelligent Design Creationist: Pervasive Transcription
Educating an Intelligent Design Creationist: Rare Transcripts

The Specificity of DNA Binding Proteins

It is absolutely essential that you understand the basic biochemistry of DNA binding proteins if you want to interpret the ENCODE results and the controversy surrounding junk DNA. You might think this is a given since almost everyone involved in the discussion has had some exposure to biochemistry in undergraduate courses. Unfortunately, most of these courses don't teach that stuff anymore¹ so we've raised a generation of scientists who were never exposed to the facts.

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