[Soothesayer]

That was the part of the article that made me raise an eyebrow. I would re-phrase it as such:

What are the odds that there would be such exact conditions for the formation of primitive RNA, leading to DNA, and early cellular life?

[aruanan]

What are the odds that there would be such exact conditions for the formation of primitive RNA, leading to DNA, and early cellular life?

Well, considering the stringency of conditions required for us to do DNA sequencing with custom-made primers under the best of conditions, I'd say vanishingly small for each of those. The odds for all to have occurred are at least equal to the product of each of the separate odds.