[That Subliminal Kid]

there could have been something almost like "life" which was self-replicating, and proceeded it.

Uhmm, that's self-assembly. Thanks for proving my point.

[donh]

Uhmm, that's self-assembly.

and the difference between self-assembly and self-replication would be what, exactly?

Thanks for proving my point.

You have no point, just the vague hope that being an inexhaustable word-lawyer will somehow make the unlikely case that there is one and only one possible way for life to arise--by the spontaneous jumping together of a prokariote from raw parts--a totally unlikely creationist strawman--not a case that science is trying to make.