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Who or what could miniaturize such information and place this enormous number of ‘letters’ in their proper sequence as a genetic instruction manual? Alter2Ego

Molecules acting over time.

Consider a single snowflake, intricate, regular patterns, yet each crystal of water grew by nothing more than H2O bonding to H2O, over and over and over a billion billion times.

Organic molecules can also form crystals, such as simple sugar.  Proteins can form crystals, and DNA is just a repeating molecular structure.

Imagine trying to write an engineering specification for just one single snowflake.  Human beings would require massive resources and time to specify all the dimensions, angles, and intricate interlocking bonds of all those billion billion H2O molecules.

Does that mean every snowflake was hand assembled, say, by angels perhaps?

Your error is in looking at a complex molecular structure that has built up over billions of years and imagining the odds of that particular structure just coming together by random.  You are thinking about this backwards.

The odds against any particular snowflake having the precise arrangement that it does are astronomical, yet each snowflake does in fact form as it does.  That is how crystal growth works, but you are looking at the process backwards, hence your lack of understanding of it.