No Junk DNA

The Psalmist forcefully declares, “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,  I know that full well.”
Psalm 139:14

As someone once said, “God don’t make junk!”  And new scientific research is now confirming this.

For years, scientists believed that some of the human DNA was less valuable.  It was declared “junk DNA” because it did not seem to have the same importance as the other more critical pieces of the genetic matter.  But scientists are doing an about face.  “Indeed, the vast majority of human DNA seems to be involved in maintaining individuals’ well being — a view radically at odds with what biologists have thought for the past three decades,” stated the New York Post (September 5, 2012, “Junk DNA”)

The article went on to say, “Most of a person’s genetic risk for common diseases such as diabetes, asthma and hardening of the arteries appears to lie in the shadowy part of the human genome once disparaged as “junk DNA.”

My daughter is studying to be a nurse.  One of her favorite classes in the last few years has been human anatomy.  She comes home with fascinating stories about the importance of everything from human skin to eye-balls formed in utero.

The human body is one of the clear and ever-present signs that a maker is about a grand design. With each step that we go deeper, we find more “design,” and more to marvel over.