The importance of information:
For life to have begun, something that could encode information and replicate itself was necessary. A molecule—or perhaps a group of molecules—would have done the trick. Once these substances could replicate themselves, it’s believed that natural selection would have stepped in to create new versions of the ‘Great Starter’.
Then it just degenerates into the usual big media Darwinsludge:
According to Lane, the environment that created life would need to be ‘continuously’ producing the building blocks of RNA in ‘large numbers’. ‘Any form of replication is doubling,’ says Lane. ‘So you need an environment that will feed you.’
‘This is one of the problems with a soup,’ says Lane, referring to Darwin’s 1871 theory that life emerged in a ‘warm little pond’—a soup of chemicals showered in light and heat. ‘You simply run out of ingredients very, very quickly—the concentration is too low.’
Matthew Powner isn’t giving up on Darwin’s soup just yet, though.
No. We bet not. It’s a religion.
See also: Origin of life studies stalled without considering information