Doe it really matter if God exists or not...?

[Scoobes]

JWeinCom said:

Scoobes said:

That's beginning to seem unlikely as 80% of the genome has been identified as being involved in at least one biochemical reaction within at least one human cell-type. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439153/

Calling it non-coding is a bit misleading (although it's still refered to as non-coding DNA) as it simply means it isn't a protein coding gene. A lot of it has more regulatory roles such as getting transcribed into regulatory RNA. 

Just going by the name they give it.  I know that recently they've been discovering a lot of it has some use, but that's still new research.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the human genome only refers to the protien coding portion of DNA.

No, the human genome refers to all DNA. That paper identifies 80% of all DNA as being involved in at least one biochemical reaction although it also includes parts of the genome that may have a very minor effect.

The paper is part of ENCODE. The ENCODE project is a woldwide project that aims to discover all functionaility within the human genome and the first data was released in 2010. It's about to enter its next phase so we should hopefully have a pretty good idea of what all our DNA does within the next 10 years.