QUOTE: De novo genes “represent a really unprecedented or unrivaled kind of genetic novelty,” said Caroline Weisman, a doctoral student in biophysics at Harvard University who is conducting research into the origin of genes. “That’s a really exciting possibility for evolutionary biologists who are thinking about how things like novelty evolve.”

Exciting indeed, to think that cell communities can produce novelties. A theist could easily believe that his God created all this complex machinery to enable cells to work out their individual ways of evolving. A very reasonable alternative to Genesis, wouldn’t you say?