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Jonathan Cotton: Are there parts of your body that you don' need? Find out next on today's Creation Moments. And now, here's our Creation Moment host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Years ago, evolutionary scientists labeled 180 human organs, such as the appendix, as vestiges left over from evolution. The fact is they did not know the function these organs actually served. Well, since that time, it has been learned that every one of these organs have useful functions and have nothing to do with evolution. Now, a similar situation is shaping up with DNA. As scientists learned what the different segments of DNA do, they also found segments that appeared to have no function. These segments have often been referred to as junk DNA. Predictably, evolutionists have suggested that these apparently useless segments of DNA are left over from our evolutionary history.

Now, researchers at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, have discovered that they may have a function after all. They were studying early mammalian development in fertilized mouse eggs and early embryos. And as they traced the genes at work in these early stages of development, they discovered that about 10% of the so-called junk DNA was actively making protein during the first cell divisions of the egg. Further research is planned. Like the so-called vestigial organs, at least some so-called junk DNA has a purpose, and it has nothing to do with evolution. Once again, as ignorance is replaced with knowledge, we gain a greater appreciation of what our creator has made.

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