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The Atheist's Riddle - attempt to solve

Longtime no write... oh well, here I go again: This time, it's about something I read a long time ago and namely The Atheist's Riddle . To put it simply it states that information can only be created by a conscious entity and since DNA is also information (genetic one), it MUST have been created and not spontaneously/randomly appear. Here are two examples of it, the first is the original one I received on an email and that got me thinking, the second one is just another restatement of it I found on the net. "Messages, languages and coded information never, ever come from anything else besides a mind. No one has ever produced a single example of a message that did not come from a mind.   Nature can create fascinating patterns - snowflakes, sand dunes, crystals, stalagmites and stalactites. Tornados and turbulence and cloud formations.   But non-living things cannot create language. They *cannot* create codes. Rocks cannot think and they cannot talk. And they ca