> "it's not unreasonable to believe that, given long enough timeframes, similar constructs may have spontaneously self-replicated, even if inefficiently.". It

> "it's not unreasonable to believe that, given long enough timeframes, similar constructs may have spontaneously self-replicated, even if inefficiently.". It is unreasonable. I'm afraid your long enough timeframes (3.8 billion years) are not even remotely close to long enough if you consider any serious actual statistical measure of how long it would need for something as complex as just a single cell to "spontaneously" exist, the numbers just don't workout. Any hypothesis that just guesses how life started with no substantial evidence whatsoever, is just a desperate try to blind yourself form the elephant in the room, that this insane complexity can't just make itself. No matter how long time passes, a watch can't just come to existence without a watchmaker.