“i doubt they understood the wrapping of a filament around a broken strand in the 60s, or the 70s, 80s, and maybe not the 90s ~ the idea is they KNEW WHAT IT DID, but not the details off HOW IT DID WHAT IT DID.”
Actually they knew about the protein complexing and wrapping around the strands in the early 80s. They certainly didnt know all the details but they had a pretty good idea of how it works.
Lightning struck “primordial soup” which caused living cells complete with self-replicating, self-repairing dna to happen. Nope, that doesn’t take any faith at all to believe. /s