This is true, but I don't find it persuasive. We know that simple chemistry plus lots of energy can create more complicated chemistry. We have evidence that so

This is true, but I don't find it persuasive. We know that simple chemistry plus lots of energy can create more complicated chemistry. We have evidence that some protein molecules can be self-replicating under the right conditions. Given billions of parallel experiments over billions of years, I think it is vanishingly unlikely that exactly one has progressed to the point we would recognize as self-organizing. But that's faith, not proof. I'll defend it as the most reasonable and non-exceptional version of the story, but I won't claim it as absolute truth.