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That is indeed the case. You can have entire regions become active/inactive by switching its marker (junk DNA) or you can have small pieces become inactive if they don't make sense in their context (as is done during the translation process). I referenced the former as evidence for common descent because we share a lot of inactive regions with other mammals.



These regions are simply what we don't completely understand. Its fruitless to say we'll never find a purpose for non-coding DNA.

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However, I grant you that the monkey-typewriter example is too simplistic. It's best used as an example of random chance vs. random chance plus optimal selection



Yeah, in that sense its ok. I realized after typing the response, that it was a rather useless response because I really wasn't arguing the same thing, per se. Back to work on my game.

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