But how do you get to the evolution part without an evolutionary mechanism?
Once a cell is established with a basic DNA/RNA setup, or even just an RNA replicator, then natural selection kicks in and evolution provides the mechanism to drive complexity against the tide.
Getting to something complex enough to allow replication and selection to happen is the tricky part, as you have to get past the error catastrophe issue.
I don't believe in any creator or divine being, but I have noticed a problem with discussions of the first living things, many scientists (astronomers and chemists in particular) assume one is looking for evidence of God if one brings up the difficulties of the formation of the first proto-cells etc. and discussion gets a bit stifled.
I personally think the answers may come from information theory, and that some totally new laws will be discovered which can help answer some of these questions.
Paul Davies wrote an interesting book on some of the issues, and despite the title, it is not a search for religion being the answer
http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Miracle-.../dp/0684837994