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Our modern DNA is almost certainly not how it started out. Pre-biotic ‘life’ was most likely much simpler than modern DNA. Evolution and natural selection modified it to what we see today and its effects should not be underestimated.
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The odds I was quoting was assuming just the creation of a single protein. Even the simplest pre-DNA organism would need lots of proteins and other complex items. Even just an RNA replicator would require more than this.
I don't think people properly understand what a chance of 1 in 10 ^ 30,000 means.
The number of *atoms* in the observable universe is only around 10^80.
So unless the universe was truly infinite then the chance of it happening even twice is below consideration.
And that is just the chance of a single protein occurring, it would take much much more than that for even a pre-DNA super basic ancestor organism to occur.
I'll head over to the other thread, I'm keen to hear what folk far more knowledgeable than myself think on this stuff.