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On Abiogenesis

  Let us first postulate the problem of abiogenesis, what is it exactly? If one reads popular science articles such as this one  https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/spontaneous-generation/ one might get confused by a sentence such as this one: >>“Spontaneous generation” was the idea that living organisms can spring into existence from non-living matter.<< Being written by superficial evangelists of science of today, it is no wonder that it poses a question, at least to a reader who is not a native English speaker, how come was abiogenesis possible then, if that idea is wrong, and what does that sentence mean at all? To convey anything meaningful, it obviously relies heavily on the distinct meaning of the phrase "spring into existence", vs "come into existence", or "arise". The difference is that it means "arise suddenly", but the precise meaning of the word "suddenly", in that context was not given. Wikipedia article htt...