[willyd]

If this theory is true then there should be plenty of real life samples that scientists can collect from the clay based soil surrounding any of the volcanic fissures on the planet today....hooray...the mystery is solved by science...when a scientist provides an actual example i will be convinced...in the mean time i will hold my breath...just tell them to hand the sample to the blue faced guy in the corner when it is ready.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"If this theory is true then there should be plenty of real life samples that scientists can collect from the clay based soil surrounding any of the volcanic fissures on the planet today."

No, there shouldn't be. The conditions on the Earth now are not like the conditions on the Earth 4 billion years ago. The biggest difference? Today there are already organisms ready to devour any organic matter that forms. In order for life to arise now, it would have to do so in a place where no other life exists, and where no other life has already filled in that ecological niche. Such a place no longer exists; life is pretty much everywhere that it can be on the Earth right now. The period of biogenesis on the Earth would be necessarily self-limited in length.