[jonno]

"Add to that the shear scale of time, a billion years, that it had to occur then yes, life could have come from nothing."

Please believe me when I say that that I am not trying to be condescending; but given the HUGE number of variables that need to fall into place - in just the right sequence, for life to appear spontaneously, the chances are over-overwhelming small.

It's as unlikely as declaring that the below rock formations were found at the bottom of a rock-slide - and not just once, but over and over...

[Raymann]

Actually I find it very likely...not the rocks but life. Look up the work by joan oro and the famous miller-urey experiment. We built the building blocks in a lab meant to reproduce the early earth...no reason it couldn’t happen IRL.

[metmom]

Which doesn’t even come close to the phenomenal level of complexity found in genetics and the information that is carried in it.