[Southack]

"Sharp-eyed readers will no doubt note that the theory requires shifts in allele frequencies of genes (see above paragraph). This means that for evolution to take place, one must first have alleles and genes themselves, which, in turn, occur only in living organisms."

That's incorrect. Allelomorphs (unabbreviated alleles) are merely genetic data at a specific point on a chromosone.

This appears in non-living genes (read: dead organisms) as well as in our electronic datasets of decoded genomes.

Moreover, it is problematic to guess, as you have done, that genes instantly poofed into existance in the first living cell rather than evolved from inanimate matter.

[Elsie]

I find it a bit amazing, that even though I am a 'living organism', and there are perhaps millions of OTHER 'living organisms' on and in my body, I, and each of them, are made up off NON-living atoms and molecules.