Because Darwin understood the difficulty in explaining the origin of life, he avoided the topic. With what we know about DNA, the task is even more challenging today. As atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins admits, “The message found in just the cell nucleus of a tiny amoeba is more than all thirty volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica combined, and the entire amoeba has as much information in its DNA as 1,000 complete sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica!”
The lowly amoeba contains the equivalent of 44 billion words of data. From where did all that information come?