This hysteria exist mainly because most people are led to believes &quot;genes&quot; are something that they are not.<p>They are not &quot;blueprints&quot; much less some sort of engineering document.<p>More realistically, they are a simple list of materials (in this case a listing of proteins).<p>They only describe the materials that make up a structure, not <i>what</i> that structure is nor <i>how</i> it functions.<p>Its the equivalent of someone saying: 14,234 tons of steel, 23,000 tons of concrete, 8000 tons of glass...etc. Now, what does it make? Why does it make it?