eli5 – If RNA was created by a soup of chemicals, is it possible that it’s being randomly created in pockets around the world? and could those random rna strands create life out of nowhere?

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Sorry If these questions are stupid, I was just randomly thinking about how rna started.

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You’re talking like primordial ooze type stuff man. Like the part you’re taking about already happened a loooooong time ago, like millions of years before dinosaurs even.

Think of the first life as someone building a car from scratch with no knowledge. After millions of tries.. they’ll end up with a car that drives eventually. Now that the cars built.. it just upgrades. Same with life on earth.. species are still evolving with natural selection but it’s not starting from scratch..it’s working with what it already has and just improving it through literal trial and error (on a big scale).

Aaaand now that I’m typing all that I’ll bet there’s something on like the bacteria level that can do something similar to what you describe but.. I dunno🤷‍♂️