Four-sided Triangles wrote:The basic building block compounds of life form spontaneously and easily given the right ingredients. Given those basic ingredients, fairly stochastic, aqueous environment to allow for electrolytic chemistry, and an incredible amount of time, a small number of very primitive self-replicators could eventually form. These self-replicators could then improve through evolution.
The self-replicators don't even need the aqueous environment, there was something a while back about life like particles being found in a charged dust cloud in space or something similar, but I'm having trouble pinning it down, all I can find is from 2007, but it was more recent than that.
Edit: typo