Comment by AareyBaba

I am seriously interested in understanding why a lot of people have no issue accepting the idea of humans evolving from simple immaterial matter into biological beings and all the way up to our current reality but have a hard time believing that can be done via computers.

You just described AI in the 90's: Artifical Life, subsumption architecture, evolutionary algorithms. Theoretically we should be able to evolve intelligence but the search space is impossibly high and we don't understand why life is evolvable. Even if we did evolve an AI through a simulation of evolution - there's a small chance we would understand it.