Still at it eh CTD?

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Wiki lists the " Tenets of the Modern Synthesis "
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2. Evolution is gradual: small genetic changes, recombination ordered by natural selection. Discontinuities amongst species (or other taxa) are explained as originating gradually through geographical separation and extinction (not saltation).
The link is messed up, it should be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis

Curiously the sidebar lists
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Mechanisms and processes

Adaptation
Genetic drift
Gene flow
Mutation
Natural selection
Speciation
And when I click on mutation I find:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation
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Large-scale mutations in chromosomal structure, including:
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Loss of heterozygosity: loss of one allele, either by a deletion or recombination event, in an organism that previously had two different alleles.
In other words recombination is a kind of mutation that causes large scale change to the DNA, however it is not the only one, nor are mutations limited to large scale changes.

We come back to recombination still being regarded as a mutation, even by the "high priests" (although I would hesitate to call the wiki editors that), in large part because mutation is defined as change to the DNA. Any change = mutation.

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mu·ta·tion n.
1. The act or process of being altered or changed.
2. An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality.
3. Genetics
.. a. A change of the DNA sequence within a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not found in the parental type.
.. b. The process by which such a change occurs in a chromosome, either through an alteration in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA coding for a gene or through a change in the physical arrangement of a chromosome.
.. c. A mutant.
4. Linguistics The change that is caused in a sound by its assimilation to another sound, such as umlaut.
American Heritage Dictionary, 2008.

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And we still have no answer to how tanned skin is hereditary, how muscular development is hereditary, how skin cell reproduction is different from bacterial reproduction (ie - by mitosis), or a number of other issues that get tedious to repeat as there are so many.

Enjoy.