Hmm. I could see the day-night cycle as creating the large molecules of organic junk that the life, or proto-life, springs from and eventually eats. It seems l

Hmm. I could see the day-night cycle as creating the large molecules of organic junk that the life, or proto-life, springs from and eventually eats. It seems like having big molecules of junk lying around would set the stage for self-replicating processes to be able to "eat" the junk molecules and put the energy into synthesizing its own molecules.