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I certainly respect all reasonable opinions on the matter, but I'm personally convinced that there was some sort of, ahem, intervention involved. It seems that the mechanics of life involve many complexities that seem far from inevitable. Who knows, you may be right.

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Then you are saddled with the overwhelmingly bigger problem of where the interventionist came from.

You don't converge when each next term is astronomically bigger than the previous one.

It appears, already, that amino acids and RNA were inevitable, and RNA turns out to suffice for the needed enzyme operations. RNA that replicates other RNA arises spontaneously. Once you get two of them, the seas fill with variations of everything they encounter.

But then again, the anthropic principle - you are only here to observe them since they did happen, so the ludicrously small probability of something like this happening can not be held as evidence against it being random.

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