It's amazing, but it is also striking to imagine a programmer thinking that a language would come into existence, and simultaneously a very complicated medium that is used to store code in that language, and if that were not enough, at the same time using that medium and the language code, a living creature would evolve which also is able to reproduce itself. And all that as a result of a huge explosion. Sometimes code gets generated during an explosion, but that is usually an emotional explosion from your boss.

It's one thing to think that some molecules bound together suddenly form some kind of freaking mix, but the genetic code is something else. Especially when you consider that that language itself, the code, has never changed since then.

You could probably write a program that rearranges the bits on a disk randomly and see if a language code comes out of it that would replace Visual FoxPro. In a matter of a few months you can run several trillion iterations on a very good computer (or running it simultaneously on different machines if it requires more time), and something must come out of it eventually. At least this scenario would not require the random iterations to build the storing media at the same time, because the language without medium would be worthless.

>I saw a movie a while back which begins to convey the complexity of what happens in genetic code inside of each cell. For example, the protein machines constructed within every cell, the complexity and sure volume of information contained in DNA, the fact that the only thing which separates me from a fruit fly, a banana, a tree, a zebra or a whale, is the programming information contained within that DNA strand (and the protein machines created as a result). DNA determines everything about every cell. And there are multiple computers, multiple specific pieces of hardware, an internal cellular intranet, and an internet (between multiple cells). There are different computing architectures (like different types of CPUs, each with their own operating systems and machine code). And every cell has millions of them.
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>It is beyond reason that it could've come into existence through natural evolutionary processes. In fact, within that video a scientist computed that it has a chance of 1 in 10 to the 340,000,000 power (1 in 10^(340000000)). To put that number in comparison, the odds of throwing a single grain of sand painted red into sand occupying the volume of the entire known universe, and then having it all be scrambled up through shaking, and then reaching in and pulling out on the first try that single red grain of sand, is 1 in 10 to the 96 power (1 in 10^(96)). So how unlikely is evolution? Beyond impossibility. This information begins at 35:20 into the video below.
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>The complexity of what goes on inside of each cell, as is ENTIRELY directed by the information contained within DNA, is beyond imagination.
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>The video which explains how complex it is can be found here, called The Programming of Life (44 minutes):
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vBqYDBW5s

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