I'm going to keep hammering on this until it sinks in.
And continue to avoid reality as long as humanly possible. Screw reason.
We don't know how life began but one of the more fanciful hypotheses is
that it began in a primordial soup of organic molecules supplied by
meteors, comets, and violent lightening storms. The idea is that the
ocean was full of glucose, amino acids, and nucleotides. Glucose and
similar carbohydrates supplied the energy for life. Amino acids
spontaneously came together to form proteins. Nucleic acids arose by
stringing together pre-existing nucleotides or nucleosides.
In the most extreme version, the ocean itself was the primordial soup
and concentrations of organic molecules were sufficient to drive the
formation of life. A simple back-of-the envelope calculation indicates
that the concentration of typical amino acids would have been about 0.1
nM (10-10 M) [Can watery asteroids explain why life is 'left-handed'?]. This is an unlikely scenario [More Prebiotic Soup Nonsense]. You won't get spontaneous formation of polymers in water at that concentration.
Or maybe an omnipotent being simply
willed us into existence. The author has failed to consider the concept
of Ockham's Razor, by which the most simple explanation is likely to be
correct.
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