How random is the emergence of life?

Does nature move in a step-by-step process or is it in terms of quantum leaps?

It has to be quantum leaps because otherwise we could follow the steps and the mystery factor would have been taken out of the equation. Yet every time this happens, you can’t expect what will happen next – the old ingredients do combine but they do not combine how we expected them to combine – something new happens in creation for the first time.

The life we experience right now – each one of us, is a new creation. The experience is exclusive to each one of us on an individual level. No two people have duplicated experiences, they may come close – but the exclusivity factor remains.

For example – take oxygen and hydrogen – both are gases, invisible and light. Yet when combined together – water forms which has the property of being in liquid form, visible and can be heavy. And new sets of possibilities were created from that point onwards – including humans and life itself.

How is such a process come into place? What are the odds of this happening? You cant just shuffle around properties to get water. Shuffling only brings about change, it doesn’t transform. Sodium and Chlorine form Salt – another example of transformation.

It is all around us – including our bodies which are bonding millions of molecules every second and it all depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion are two examples here. Food and air do not just shuffle around in our bodies but rather go through the same transformation through chemical bonding as mentioned above to keep us going.

Isn’t the sugar extracted from the orange you had this morning digest and travel to your brain to fuel a thought?