It would be a huge accomplishment if Valerie stopped invoking this particular equivocation, but admitting that it’s a farce would also implicitly admit that a huge amount of IDcreationist propaganda is, too.
To answer @thoughtful, no. We KNOW that all non-coding DNA does not have equal value. We have evidence.
That’s why in the ERV thread, I offered questions that would help a truly curious person to understand the absurdity of the equivocation:
You are invoking a fallacy of composition, the IDcreationist trick of conflating “noncoding” with “junk.” I’m pretty sure that the falsehood of that conflation has been explained to you in detail here. Why do you continue to employ it?
Answering these questions will reveal the fallaciousness of your conflation:
- Are promoters and enhancers protein-coding?
- Do promoters and enhancers have function?
- In what year was the first promoter characterized?
- Are ribosomal and transfer RNA genes protein-coding?
- In which years were they first characterized?
- Are miRNAs and lncRNAs protein-coding?
- What does the “nc” in “lncRNA” stand for?
Aren’t you curious, Valerie?