is the advancement of macro evolution without hick up?

There is a paper by Alexey Kondrashov which was based on observed human rates, but that included different types of mutation (Kondrashov, 2002).TTFN,WK

Wow, was there like an ID/creationist memo just recently telling you all how to be wrong this month? What the ENCODE project tells us is that much of the genome is transcribed and therefore biochemically functional, what relevance this has to the actual biological function of the organism is very far from being determined.Smooth Operator was making the same bogus argument in the What exactly is ID? thread.TTFN,WK

Of course in some cases we do know what some non protein coding transcripts do, such as the snoRNAs, tRNAs and microRNAs. But most of these show patterns of conservation consistent with those in other biologically important genetic sequences. In contrast ENCODE only found around 5% of the transcribed regions to have any signs of conservation between different species, of course if you don't believe in common descent exactly what that sort of conservation means is highly debatable.TTFN,WK