[BMCDA]

A modern cell is indeed a very complex system but that doesn't mean that the first self-replicator had to be such a complex cell or that it even had to be a cell at all.

There are a lot of possible scenarios on how even such simple biochemical systems can arise or how they can become more complex but at the moment our knowledge in this field is still very low, so declaring abiogenesis impossible and calling for a supernatural "explanation" is not justifiable IMO.

[js1138]

I think most biologists have confidence that abiogenesis occurred somewhere in the universe, but theories are premature right now. Suffice to say, evolution is bout historical and current. The processes are visible right now.

[realpatriot71]

A modern cell is indeed a very complex system but that doesn't mean that the first self-replicator had to be such a complex cell or that it even had to be a cell at all. There are a lot of possible scenarios on how even such simple biochemical systems can arise or how they can become more complex but at the moment our knowledge in this field is still very low, so declaring abiogenesis impossible and calling for a supernatural "explanation" is not justifiable IMO.

IMHO, you don't quite grasp the impossibilities of situation, you cannot "build" the biochemical and molecular basis of life simply by adding isolated feature/functions, because in a cell all features and functions, as a necessary condition, need other features and functions in order to work - the biochemistry is intimately tied together.