Let's talk about something simpler first - about movies.
We know enough about chemistry of photographic film
to conclude that movies are simply fantastically complex clockwork automatons, correct?
"living systems may be defined as open systems maintained in steady-states, far-from-equilibrium, due to matter-energy flows in which informed (genetically) autocatalytic cycles extract energy, build complex internal structures, allowing growth even as they create greater entropy in their environments, and capable, over multigenerational time, of evolution."