Matt Kielty

is a bit of a leap.

To make an actual living thing that can make copies of itself, you need RNA and DNA and a cell membrane and all the intricate goodies inside.

That's a very, very far gap to jump.

I mean, Miller himself worried about this during his lifetime.

Yeah, but the most famous critic of this whole primordial soup idea was actually Francis Crick.

As in the guy who helped discover a little thing called DNA.

So this is a snippet from a call-in radio show where they are discussing what Francis Crick saw as a far more logical explanation of how life began.

Yeah, seems more feasible than a glass cauldron.

Than a lightning bolt.

Than a lightning bolt.

Okay, wait, wait.

We got to... Okay, the resident person who knows less here.

I mean...

What?

How are they found?

And Nick says it's not just amino acids.

That's wild.

Yes, maybe, maybe, but... For Nick, as a full way to explain the origin of life, that's still... You know, that's two steps too far.

Even if amino acids or DNA apparently are always raining down from the sky, you still have those 12 other steps he mentioned.

And so his best guess for how or rather where life began, and he's scientific, he's like, this is just my guess, I'm not saying it is, is a particularly hellish spot that looks very not conducive to life.