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?

Question

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

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Answer 1

If a new day 0 organism were to emerge, it would be unable to compete with today’s organisms, with their billions of years of evolution to compete and perfectly fit the environment.

Even in sterile no-preservative food items, which seem like the perfect isolated environment, they would die. Thousands of chemical compounds/structures produced by every organism on earth exist to protect cells from infection and resource theft. Liquify strawberries and you’ll get more than just sugar and protein – it’s all the strawberry’s protective enzymes and locked proteins and whatnot.