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When I speak of spontanaity I speak of animals or plants popping into existance from nothingness. What you are talking about are pre-existing materials organizing into lifeforms these are two quite different ideas.

The next time a new species appears miraculously in your living room give me a call. I know new species can form, just not from a vacuum.

OK, I read this a couple of times and I still have no idea what point you're trying to make. Are you under the impression that I have argued that all species popped out of nowhere (other than recognizing that if one believed in God, one would have to believe that this is theoretically possible)? If so, you have some re-reading of posts to do.

I'm suggesting if God spontaneously created plants and animals on this planet as seen in Genesis it would not be unexpected to wake up in the morning to a moon full of life.

Obviously sex is needed for the reproduction of all life, and one organism comes from its parent organism. Sex is the driver of evolution. If you want to think of the first organisms on the planet you might want to think about how chemistry mimics/emulates sexual procreation.

I guess I'm a little confused as to how you think life, insects, plants, animals etc. came to being on this planet.