Can all the numbers for life’s origin just happen to fall into place?
A chance origin of life offers a practical advantage:
Precisely because life is so complex, a great many ideas can be researched. And the field is still at the starting gate. When Harvard chemist George Whitesides received the coveted Priestley medal in 2007, he said, “Most chemists believe, as do I, that life emerged spontaneously from mixtures of molecules in the prebiotic Earth. How? I have no idea.” He did know what he thought of the cell, however:
The cell is a bag — a bag containing smaller bags and helpfully organizing spaghetti — filled with a Jell-O of reacting chemicals and somehow able to replicate itself.
The secret is in that “helpfully organizing spaghetti.”
Although chance-based proposals are far more numerous, they face the same key hurdles as law-based ones, including: More.
Soup, broth, bags filled with jello, and "helpfully organizing spaghetti. The things people will believe.
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