All the talk about probabilities and timescales necessary for the generation of the first life from non-life strikes the cat as silly. His reasoning is: the probability of necessity is one out of one. Always. Life is present so is a matter of absolute necessity making all the probabilities irrelevant. Its generation from non-living chemicals is another matter but if such is the case, which is rather dubious, the process is bound to be a matter of absolute necessity. So no millions or billions of years are required for the process to occur. Just the right conditions and the right set of chemicals following a strictest chain of reactions must necessarily result in a ready system of death avoiding machines. No exceptions, no chance to fail. Dead certainty just like is the case with any other well known and understood chemical process. The process must be repeatable each and every time those conditions meet the chemicals. Resulting on the spot in the DNA memory and the death avoidance drive distinguishing the living from the inert.
So if the non-living matter is constipated with living beings as the proponents of abiogenesis suggest, it needs to be demonstrated to really shit the living forms.
Discuss with the moggy.
Edited by Alfred Maddenstein, : No reason given.