Formation of Cells on Early Earth Was Mathematically Improbable According to New Study

I see comments of some sort of a video glitch in this video. Can you let me know what you're watching this on it you see the flickering or something bizarre? I tried it on several devices and don't seem to see anything unusual on my end PS nothing different has been done on my end when editing this so not sure what's happening

Very interesting visual glitches in the video.

The more I hear about life on Earth, the more I feel thankful for being a participant. Great production Anton.

Panspermia has never been satisfying to me. It doesn't satisfy the question of abiogenesis - it just moves the goalpost to a distant field.

One of the problems with this hypothesis is that the protein and molecule folding aspect is treated as a separate informational issue, but the folding is integral to the molecule itself. In most cases you can't have that molecule or protein folded in any other way, as it's an emergent property. This means that in their hypothesis they're unnecessarily adding a massive amount of complexity and throwing off the conclusion as a result.

Once you have selective processes, the march toward life is no longer random. Declaring improbable mathematical odds of abiogenesis occurring without knowing the catalysts necessary for the process is like declaring the improbable mathematical odds of a huge amount of hydrogen fusing into helium without taking gravity into account.

Chemistry isn't random Chemical bonds form by specific rules and what every Chemist can tell you, whatever you tried to synthesise, the chance to get thick and sticky tar(a.i. long chains of random stuff) then the neat and precise molecules you want is rather high

Even if panspermia is to be considered, there is still the problem that it must have started somewhere and the chances of that are as challenging as it would have been on Earth.

8:10 the problem with the math, as you describe it, is the number of experiments being performed simultaneously is a huge huge huge number: quintillions or something. If we sat in a lab doing an experiment with a 1-in-a-billion chance of working, and it took five minutes, it'd take the life of the universe or longer before we'd succeed. But if every drop of water in the ocean were a lab and we had quintillions of labs trying over and over at the same time, it might take a day. And as soon as any "lab" makes that step, the new resulting cell will start to reproduce itself...

I believe there must be some variable we're not calculating/knowing yet that would speed up these processes. In fact, when Miller made his experiment to simulate primordial earth conditions to see how life would emerge, glass somehow played a role in proving his point more than he anticipated has he wasn't trying to use glass in the process itself, but it still worked. Probably we're missing some catalysts.