[Gargantua]

"Evidence that one specific combination is the ONLY life-sustaining cominination?
Evidence that insists that life must have jumped from zero to fully-formed cell--
with no intervening reactions--
in a single step?
Based on what assumptions?
How big is your [Darwin's] pond?
Of what is it comprised?
Why assume that each molecule exists as an individual entity?
What energy source(s) drives the reactions?
Do these reaction occur at the surface or throughout the entire volume?
What about thermal vents?
Are there any other ponds that we might consider?
Are they on this planet or on ANY planet?
Do you have probabilities for the other planets?

All good questions, none of which are answered by Darwin's flawed Theory. Thank you for underlining some of the flaws in his Theory.

Oh, and in reply to your straw-grasping query: "Do you have probabilities for the other planets?"

Note that the statistics I quoted include the estimated number of atoms in the entire universe... which included all planets the last time I checked.

[Physicist]

Note that the statistics I quoted include the estimated number of atoms in the entire universe

You didn't quote any of those numbers. You made them up out of whole cloth.

[Condorman]

All good questions, none of which are answered by Darwin's flawed Theory. Thank you for underlining some of the flaws in his Theory.

The Theory of Evolution does not attempt to answer those questions. It has also never pretended to. That is not a flaw in the theory, that it outside the scope of the theory.

You also do not attempt to answer them. Yet they are crucial to a calculation of probability. Please share your assumptions about the pond. Otherwise your numbers are (even more) meaningless.

Oh, and in reply to your straw-grasping query: "Do you have probabilities for the other planets?" Note that the statistics I quoted include the estimated number of atoms in the entire universe... which included all planets the last time I checked.

Which has nothing to do with calculating probabilities for the spontaneous generation of life in the universe. For example, if you added all the probabilities for all of the possible ways in which life arose in the universe, the sum would equal 1 to the 8 billionth power. This is nowhere NEAR the estimated number of atoms in the universe.

But to the topic at hand, does your calculation include 1 pond, all ponds on Earth, or all ponds in the universe? It's important, don't you think?