‘Intelligent Design’ Crowd Projecting onto Epigenetics Too?

Seems like “Intelligent Design” proponents are adopting epigenetics in their newest argument that Darwin had it all wrong. Published in February, The Mysterious Epigenome: What Lies Beyond DNA, by theology professor Thomas Woodward and cataract surgeon James Gills, takes readers on a tour of biological molecules and processes, describing flagella, DNA, RNA, and so forth, to eventually conclude that it’s all far too complex to have evolved at all. Here’s a quote from the book posted by an admirer: [T]he epigenome adds tremendous pressure to the already-weak Darwinian explanatory apparatus. Random changes, inherited over generations, must not just explain the explosion of DNA as one moves up the purported tree of life; one must also now explain by these mindless … Continue reading →