[editor-surveyor]

"Textbooks have it that life arose from organic soup and that the first cells grew by fermenting these organics..."

Notable that they start life from the remains of.......Life?

This is like the old desert emergency water kit: Drop this pill into a jar of water.... oops!

[metmom]

There’s not been one shred of evidence that life arose without life. Even the experiments in the lab only confirm this, as it takes human intervention to *create* the *right* conditions to cause some basic molecules to form and remain stable enough to survive.