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[ Here's Darwin's "warm little pond scenario" from his 1871 [correcting date] letter to his friend Sir Joseph Hooker:
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[ 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. ]
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The Chemical SoupNazis of today have taken Darwin's musings and brewed an entree in many threads like this one.. Carrying "survival of the fittest" back to its ultimate inception requires a chemical soup to explain it all..

I know, I know.... NO SOUP FOR ME TODAY!....

I didn't get the joke about soup Nazis - probably because I never watched Seinfeld. But lucklily I found it on Wikipedia.

It must have been a hilarious skit. And the metaphor is funny here too wrt a hard-nosed defense of abiogenesis' "warm little pond."

LOL! Many thanks for the ping.

Darwin himself stated in Origin of the Species that if the fossil record did not prove the biological links asserted in his theory, the whole would not stand. After these many years and these millions of fossils found, labeled, recorded, and categorized, the links are not there. A Darwinist Believer may claim, "We are VERY CLOSE to finding them!" Close may be good enough for horseshoes, hand grenades, and government work, but that is not how Science operates...at least, it ought not operate that way.