[BroJoeK]

HLPhat: "The odds of you learning anything from the process of discovering whether or not such a paper exists are evidently zero. "

But I don't care if your fantasy exists or not, because it's irrelevant to the question of "odds".
Indeed, "odds" themselves are irrelevant to the question of what & how life first appeared on Earth.
What matters instead is a form of Murphy's law: if it can happen, eventually it will.

[HLPhat]

>>What matters instead is a form of Murphy's law: if it can happen, eventually it will.

LOL.

Right.  That's why we can walk down any beach and see bits of sand assembling themselves into silicon computer chips and smart phones.

Isn't it?