The origin of new alleles

Indeed. This argument generally revolves around the non-coding regions, tandem repeats, etc. It often takes one of three forms: a) the non-coding regions are "storage" for DNA material that will be incorporated into exons when "needed" (this is the teleological IDist formulation); b) it represents the remainder of the universal genomes present in the various "kinds" before the Flud, and hence are the bits that weren't used up in the hypermicroadaptations experienced within "kinds" subsequent to that event (and also represents the bits that are available for shuffling about when any new adaptation or species is identified, thus bolstering the "no new information" argument); or c) it represents an "echo" of the perfect all-encompassing genome present in the original organisms of the GoE before the Fall, and thus is evidence of the long-term degradation of all life after the apple incident.

Hi WK,Is this a new way of describing things? I've never heard the terms of ecological interactions being used to describe what occurs at the gene level - but then again I'm not a geneticist, so I may be out of it. I can maybe see viral insertions/retrotransposons as somehow "parasitic", but I don't get how other types of mutations could be considered "mutualistic" etc. Is this just a different way of looking at mutation, using borrowed terms (terms which, btw, even ecologists are now trying to move away from since the interactions they supposedly describe are way more complicated than the terms suggest)?