Oh, I so agree!
Here's Darwin's "warm little pond scenario" from his 1871 [correcting date] letter to his friend Sir Joseph Hooker:
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine [sic] compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were found.Yockey's remarks regarding this statement:
The passage (obviously not having been subjected to an editor's blue pencil) was not indexed and remained unnoticed until 1950....Snoopers!!! LOLOL!It is irresponsible and dishonest to reference this "warm little pond" quotation ... from Darwin's private correspondence as representing his view of the origin of life.... Everyone has the right to float tentative ideas and even nonsense to friends in his or her personal correspondence without responsibility being assumed by snoopers. [Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, p. 119]