Co-discoverer of the double-helical structure of DNA, Francis Crick, once said "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved." Goodluck with the constant reminders.
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While it is certainly true that function has not yet been identified for the majority of the genome, there is no reason to think the current trend -- of finding new, previously unsuspected functionality -- will not continue.
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Sternberg writing at ENV back in 2009: "Guy Walks Into a Bar and Thinks He's a Chimpanzee" and "How the Junk DNA Hypothesis Has Changed Since 1980"
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When one's entire interpretative framework presupposes common ancestry at the outset, it is no wonder that any and every observation is taken as supportive of that paradigm.
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