Exciting news! The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been announced, and the winning discovery supports intelligent design. Do you remember a while back when we had Dr. Casey Luskin and Dr. Fazale Rana on the Knight and Rose Show to discuss junk DNA and the origin of life? Well, they discussed the Nobel Prize discovery with Lenny Esposito on a new Come Reason podcast episode.

Here’s the description from Evolution News, written by Casey Luskin:

What’s the biggest science story of the year? My vote goes to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for the discovery of function for a type of “junk DNA” that produces microRNA (miRNA), a crucial molecule involved in gene regulation. That so-called genetic junk would turn out to be functional was a prediction of intelligent design going back to the 1990s. On that, ID has been vindicated over and over again, now by the Nobel Committee. Our colleagues Richard Sternberg and Bill Dembski were early predictors, as critics of what Jonathan Wells called in a 2011 book, The Myth of Junk DNA.

[…]Not only was this 2024 Nobel Prize awarded for the discovery that a type of junk DNA is actually extremely important (it produces microRNAs that regulate gene expression), but we see that the evolutionary “junk DNA” paradigm probably hindered acceptance of this groundbreaking discovery.

Here’s the video of the podcast:

Here are the topics:

• Introduction
• The Mystery of Protein Creation in the Cell
• Replication, Transcription, and Translation
• The Central Dogma and its Oversimplification
• Junk DNA Isn’t Junk After All
• The Human Genome Project and The Revolution In Understanding DNA
• Ambrose and Ruvkin’s Discovery – Micro RNA
• Micro RNA and protein regulation
• The Complex Interactions That Shows Design in the Cell
• Pseudo Genes and Their Importance For the Cell
• ID-Based Biology Finds Answers That Evolutionary Biology Misses
• Does the Discovery of Micro RNAs show it Isn’t Mutations That Provide New information In DNA?
• The Evolutionary Paradigm Is Getting Harder to Explain
• We See In the Cell Just What Designers Do
• Predictions From an ID Paradigm
• What The Nobel Means to ID as “Real Science”
• Are There Any implications for the RNA World Hypothesis?

If you missed our previous episodes of the Knight and Rose Show with Dr. Casey Luskin and Dr. Fuz Rana, here are the links:

• Casey Luskin: Debunking the Myth of Junk DNA
• Chemist Fazale Rana Investigates the Origin of Life