I've been reading this link & your other recent posts, and I have to say that although the possibility of these other functions is very intriguing, you guys are making quite a leap when you think they help ID in any way. Or even that they hurt the Modern Synthesis, unless you define "Modern Synthesis" very narrowly.
I can see how "junk DNA" could actually be useful for several reasons, and the explanation that there just aren't any mechanisms to edit out junk DNA & that's why they keep piling up in the genome never sat well with me. The heirarchical nature of the genes is not surprising, and the regulatory nature of the promoter regions makes lots of sense. And the fact that introns can be spliced together in more than one configuration per gene - depending on the circumstances & cell type - introduces a whole new level of complexity & subtlety to the resulting structures. And if it turns out that the rates of certain kinds of mutations really do increase when the host organism is stressed, that would be Nobel material.
But. Still. None of this helps ID any! It actually helps Nebullis' prediction in #107 that "if [ID] looks at life, it will find more evidence of evolutionary processes." Evolution is more complex & hierarchical than had been assumed. OK. But there's nothing there that opens the way for a mind to enter into the process - just more complex evolution!