Almost every living organism has tiny stretches of DNA that repeat over and over again. Scientists call these tandem repeats, and for a long time they were mostly ignored and even called ‘junk DNA.’ But it turns out these repeats can actually affect how genomes work, how traits appear, and how different organisms are unique from one another.

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Whosoever Will

“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” (Revelation 22:17)

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#1 Origins News Story of 2025: ICR Dr. Jeff Tomkins' Chimp Genome Research Confirmed and Vindicated

Research by ICR geneticist Dr. Jeff Tomkins was at the center of origins news in what has been called the “No. 1 Story for 2025.”¹ The prestigious journal Nature confirmed (albeit grudgingly and belatedly) that the true genome-wide DNA similarity between humans and chimpanzees is no more than 85%,² rather than the 98%–99% similarity that has long been touted in both the technical and popular science literature as evidence that humans and chimpanzees are related.^3–5 The recognition that the true genetic dissimilarity is ...More...

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