How did life begin from nonlife?

After a painfully long list of physical wonders with miraculously low odds in the heavens, science trots out a parade of impossible events surrounding oddly-spirited, inanimate molecules with no explanations that can be rationally measured. RNA can’t survive long enough in any natural environment, according to its own religion, to do anything at all, even if it could, which it can’t. If you can accurately put odds on that, you’ve achieved beyond the capacity of this treatise. We need, for this fiction to fly, a complete cell to arrive in reality all at once, full of life and ambition from nowhere. The chance of that happening is loosely calculable, if silly. There are 10¹⁰ atoms in a prokaryote, the first known form of life. Each atom would need to be spontaneously configured and bonded into a functional form, with possibilities reaching as high as another 10¹⁰. The probability of this miracle, then, is the combination of the two, giving us odds around 1 in a googolplex raised to the power of 10 million. So, not good. “Maybe aliens did it!” science’s pastors proclaim with stern countenances, while demanding we not giggle, but comedy isn’t measurable on our mathematical scale.

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.” Lao Tzu

With the first biological miracle in the books, the religion of science declares that prokaryotes evolved into us. They didn’t have time, according to all hard statistics describing genetic mutation, but that doesn’t slow science’s roll. “Bones!” they cry with wild eyes. But fossils are missing links, producing yet more undeniable miracles in the gaps. Each evidenced upgrade is wildly unlikely according to scientific standards, because many increments are too mathematically wide to be random. And that’s before we add a host of cellular structures constantly correcting a genetic code that they read and manipulate without a blueprint for their delicate job. The impossible magic is on full display under every microscope, but random motion and chaotic chemical reactions are said to do the heavy lifting. What are the odds that a list of veritable lies all turn out to be true? Not good.