PSS What do you suppose the discovery that the genome is 93%+ functional will do to all those phylogenetic trees that the Darwinists have constructed based on a neutral rate of mutation?
Most of the function of the non transcribed regions is due to the macro structure of the DNA. Mutations in the DNA will likely not affect the structural functions until enough are accumulated. If enough do, then the they may cause the cell to not replicate and die off or they may actually allow a new and possibly beneficial function to occur. If this new function is beneficial, then the organism will survive and be able to pass on it’s genes to it’s organism, having evolved a little.