ANNOTATION:
Potentially turning the tables...

The assumption made is the familiar one that cognitive activity 
arises at some point out of the organization of molecular
complexity.

 I offer the counter view, namely that complexity arises out of a
cognitive 'field' of activity in the quantum mechanical realm,
and hence the movement from simple to complex, as in evolution,
is the outcome of a process of self-organization from a
starting point of higher intelligence.

Might this be the reconciliation of the tired argument between
creation and evolution?

Modern work in chaos theory seems to point to the innate property
of things to move from chaos to order, there being no situation
where the required perturbation is altogether absent.

A crude example might be the growth of an oak from the acorn, in
which the pattern of the oak, to an approximate degree, is innate
in the acorn.  Might the patterns of matter and of life be
similarly innate in the very fabric of space?