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Also it might improve your understanding of this question if you ceased to refer to organic materials as "dead matter." Something that is dead must once have been alive. Materials that can be so arranged as to form a living thing are not by themselves dead. Death is property of a once living entity and ceases to have meaning when the dead entity is no longer recognizable as the remains of its former self. The raw materials of which the entity was made may well be rapidly incorporated into some other living thing (often this happens before the original owner is really dead). Pondering this may be the key to ending your confusion especially if you consider how this process worked on the molecular level in the prebiotic environment.
--Vercingetorix

So dead things were rapidly incorporated into living things in the prebiotic environment? So if I would just stop mentioning dead matter and consider how things lived and died back before there was any life at all everything would become clear to me? I can do that, but not at the molecular level. And will I have to join the Atheistic Church of Darwin in some ritual to conjur up the magical prebiotic environment where things live and die?

Molecular self replicators started the process and its been going on naturally ever since.
--Vercingetorix

I take it this was revealed to you at one of your prebiotic seances.

There is no reason to think otherwise ...
--Vercingetorix

And dont' pay any attention to the little man behind the curtain, right?

"So dead things were rapidly incorporated into living things in the prebiotic environment?" -- nika

Of course not. Prebiotic means before the first self-replicating cellular life form. There are however molecular self replicators (e.g., polymers). Some of these are quite simple and very regular -- mineral crystals, alpha helices and beta pleated sheets of amino acids, phospholipid membranes, molecular films and coatings, even lipid/water interfaces. All of these structures can occur without the involvement of cellular life yet all are found in living things today.

All of this information is accessible. If you continue to depend entirely on your religious beliefs without reference to any of the factual information on this subject your understanding will never improve.

"I take it this was revealed to you at one of your prebiotic seances." -- nika

No, I think it was revealed to me during one of my kids' grade school science projects.