Imagine hearing that someone has just won the lottery three times in the same year, or a golfer has hit five consecutive holes-in-one! We approach such improbable stories with healthy skepticism. Considering the formation of the first living cell by a perfect arrangement of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and genetic material in a ‘warm pond’, Nobel Prize winner, Francis Crick, said: “… it seems almost impossible to give any numerical value to the probability of what seems a rather unlikely sequence of events …. An honest man … could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at
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