Intelligent design

there is a lot of evidence emerging suggesting the non-coding regions of DNA are hugely important, particularly in regulating gene transcription

Absolutely - but I was referring to redundancies such as repeated genes, the fact that we have two copies of every chromosome, and so forth, rather than the so called ‘junk DNA’. :)

arachnid, I would just like to say the DNA you called redundant may play more of a role than we know. We tend to say things are redundant when we dont know what they do but there is a lot of evidence emerging suggesting the non-coding regions of DNA are hugely important, particularly in regulating gene transcription.

Of course not. There is absolutely no proof of a designer. Jumping to conclusion like that is just wishful thinking on the part of believers.

Intelligent design in a scam created by fanatics in order to force creationism into our kid’s science classes. It is nothing but creationism dressed up in a lab coat. It has nothing to do with real science.

Would you not consider dna basically directions or an instruction booklet made to tell a cell what to do, how to perform, etc.?

…no… I would not…

Would you consider dna to be intelligent design?

…no… it has too many flaws…

Instruction Booklet developed over eons of evolution.

However, I do believe in a God that started the ball rolling.

I think that just because something looks structured doesn’t mean it was designed. DNA is amazing, but it has all the hallmarks - the disorganization, the redundant sequences and left-over, unused code - of the product of natural selection. Some of the properties of DNA, such as the fact that it can mutate non-destructively, and the similarity in DNA between species, forms some of the evidence for evolution.