Fine: nothing is intrinsically a resource. Nutrients weren't a resource before some self replicating process started using it for some purpose, probably fairly

Fine: nothing is intrinsically a resource. Nutrients weren't a resource before some self replicating process started using it for some purpose, probably fairly directly related to replication. And iron ore still wasn't a resource until humans came along and invented forging. The term 'resource' does not describe the natural state of something. It describes a relationship between things: something is a resource for some goal(s), by some entity(ies). The relationship did not exist when the other party was not in that relationship, for instance because the other party did not exist. Thinking new resources cannot come into existence is making a category mistake, thinking whether something is a resource is absolute, intrinsic, independent of context.