Human Genome Sequence and The Science of Diversity | Stars, Cells, and God ep 21

Join Fazale “Fuz” Rana and Jeff Zweerink as they discuss new discoveries taking place at the frontiers of science that have theological and philosophical implications, as well as new discoveries that point to the reality of God’s existence.

The year 2000 marked one of the most significant scientific accomplishments of all time: a “working draft” of the human genome sequence. Yet, at that time, about 8 percent of the human genome remained unsequenced. These unsequenced regions consist of highly repetitive sequences. Recently, the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium made use of advances in DNA sequencing technology to sequence most of the remaining 8 percent of the human genome. What does this advance mean for the RTB creation model?

Some scientists are embarking on a massive project to collect racial, ethnic, and gender information from scientists submitting papers to journals, the peer reviewers of the papers, and the editors of the journals. This data can be of great value in investigating biases in scientific publishing, but without careful thought it can run afoul of the scientific process at the same time. Can scientists investigate bias in publishing without collecting data that might jeopardize the safety of certain groups? Can we pursue efforts to discourage discrimination without allowing explanations that might offend some people?

In this episode Fuz and Jeff discuss these important topics.

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Additional Resources:
“A Post-Genomic Era: Ludicrous with an Incomplete Human Genome,”

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[brucegove]

I mostly enjoy your SCG videos. The one big exception is that when you folks have a slide showing in the deep background, I can’t read much, if any, of it. For example, I want to see the graph labels and units, and I need more time to process the information. The slides are often not displayed for a long enough time.
Would it be possible for your video technicians to display the slides in a larger format for a longer time?
Thanks for your good work!

[hazeloveu]

I have only listened to the first few minutes so forgive me if this is discussed later on and I haven’t heard it yet. Wouldn’t the pursuit of truth in science encourage publications by those who have had success seeing their theories play out in the real world? I understand that the gender and race of people participating in science shouldn’t matter, because a person could be excluded for their gender or race.

[ascenderk]

tbh the part of the video where Fuz gets into *why* that previously uncharted 8% of the chromosome wasn't made comprehensible in 2000 was confusing to me (I'm humanities, not logic). Head hurts. But notwithstanding I really loved this nearly 1 hour.

I'm a bit miffed (yet not surprised) that when I was in school in the 2000s and the human genome project was presented to me as 100% sequenced (rather than 92% sequenced, with the uncharted 8% being important and functional at that!). I never knew until today. There is rhetorical sophistry and fake advertising from "the science" as well. It's a messy world.

[bobs]

Jeff's position is that opinion is data, specifically that one person's opinion that there can't be structural racism, is somehow "data" useful in the pursuit of science. Opinion is not data in the scientific sense, far from it. What actually happened is the JAMA realized that the opinion was not supported by data and so removed the opinion. It did not in any way remove any scrap of data.

[ibelieveitcauseiseentit]

I'm a Christian and I'm 25 minutes in and for God's sake what is your point?
And how is this a reason to believe?

[SeanRhoadesChristopher]

Please, stop the discrimination of my Neanderthal great great … great granddaddy! He was a son of Adam too!