[Tribune7]

If it didn't happen by happenstance how did it happen? . . . By evolution from a simpler and less efficient enzyme. Mutation, followed by natural selection.

OK, the amino acids form (happenstance)

In the conditions believed to exist in pre-biotic Earth (very unlikely happenstance)

In proximity (happenstance)

To create a enzyme (happenstance)

Which survives, multiplies and evolves into something that uses polymers of nucleotides to code for polymers of amino acids (miracle).

It is irrational to believe in miracles without believing in God. Why not just believe in God?

[Right Wing Professor]

I doubt that's what happened at all. Remember that cytochrome c is in effect just a mechanism for modifying the Fe²⁺/Fe³⁺ redox couple. Proto-life probably originally used some rather non-specifically bound organic iron or surface bound iron to do redox chemistry.

Cytochrome c isn't an enzyme, BTW.

Which survives, multiplies and evolves into something that uses polymers of nucleotides to code for polymers of amino acids (miracle).

Humankind has historically considered that which they don't fully understand a miracle. As we learn more and more about nature, the space in which miracles can exist has been contracting alarmingly. If you're committed to looking for God in the gaps; doesn't it worry you that the gaps are narrowing?