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I agree that extracting information from a sample size of one is a bad idea but so is ignoring all evidence even if the sample size is one.

Anyway, life need not be a complex process: http://www.livescience.com/animals/060609_life_origin.html

It might seem odd for a random process to end up with a life form but there are a lot of possible life forms that could work. AKA picking a single winning lottery ticket is hard but winning the lottery is not that hard if you could buy a million tickets that never expire.



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