[jononomo]

As a biologist, how do you account for the existence of life?

[dang]

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627070.

[koeng]

There was an RNA molecule or molecules that could make more of themselves (probably really poorly, at first)

[jononomo]

Have you read a book called The Stairway to Life: An Origin-of-Life Reality Check by Tan & Stadler? You can find it on Amazon. It's pretty short and will get you thinking rigorously about the problem.