Again with the straw man. The evolutionary theory does not address the origins of life, it only shows how life has changed since its inception.
I understand it is a common creationist/i/d tacit to use the straw man as to avoid facts to do not support their creation myth.
But, for the sake of discussion, let's assume there is a starting organism. There is still information involved. But information is more than symbols/code. There are rules for employing the code, there is then meaning of the assembled code. And there is some type of purpose for the "organisms" that the code builds. Where does that "stuff" come from? Meaning is not a property of matter or energy.
Example: blood clotting - necessary to repair wounds in the organism. Blood clotting requires 13 proteins, all of which are dormant until there is a cut. The cut activates the protein cascade, one protein activating the next, until they are all activated. What would it take for an organism to retain one protein until all 13 are in place? What would it take for an organism to retain 12 proteins until the 13th comes along, and then what would bind them together? Where would the trigger come from? Why would there be a trigger? And how did all of the animals survive until the full blood clotting mechanism was in place and operational?
The problem with organisms is that they are extremely complex. And totally interdependent. Hardly the stuff of chance and natural selection!