Blackfish documentary on CNN - anyone else watch it?

[Jester]

That's where your analogy breaks down.
Self coding code.
A self licking ice cream cone.

I'd suggest you try using another analogy than computer programming.

Complex systems can arise from simple rules under selective pressures. This is as true in programming as in biology. If there is replication, mutation, and selection, you have evolution. All that was necessary for the beginning of life was a single self-replicating chemical.

The result (after billions of generations) will be coded, in the sense that it replicates itself and contains the information necessary to construct the organism. But it emphatically does not require a coder.

-Jester

Afterthought: The key here is that this is not an analogy, or a metaphor. The genetic code is a literal code, one that is reprogrammed through changes in its chemistry.