Mentorship was a top theme which Christian students worldwide said helped them keep their faith at university. Biblical mentors can coach you to think through faith-challenging messages, answer tough questions, and help you thrive in your biblical worldview. But what exactly is a mentor—and how do you find one?
To think through evolutionary arguments about DNA, it’s essential to know some basics about what DNA is and how it works. Here’s a crash introduction to how genetic information is encoded, organized, and translated into the proteins which do all the work in our cells.
Is most of our DNA “junk” leftover from evolution? Some people still say so, despite research suggesting that most of the human genome is biochemically active. Let’s think biblically and critically about “junk DNA” arguments and explore some recent advances in the “junk DNA” debate.
A popular argument for “junk DNA” says that since onions have more non-coding DNA than humans, but are less complex than humans, onions’ DNA must be mostly useless junk. Therefore, the non-coding DNA in humans is likely junk as well. Let’s think through this argument biblically and critically.