[metmom]

So where’d the code come from if nobody wrote it?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

So where’d the code come from if nobody wrote it?

Why, just like the code for the computer programs you're using - it magically appeared abiogenetically out of nowhere, due to completely naturalistic forces!

/sarc

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“So where’d the code come from if nobody wrote it?”

First, it’s not ‘code’ the way you and I understand a human-created code to be. If you think so, you’re anthropomorphizing it.

Second, there’s an entire branch of chemistry/physics which demonstrates the capability you questioned -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization

Some of the links on that page are worth following, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

[RightWhale]

So where’d the code come from if nobody wrote it?

The metaphor is hopeless.