The most basic known form of life is bacteria.
Aminoacids
As very improbable. Even the most simple cell contains many aminoacids assembled in an specific arrangement, The odds of even the most simple form of life randomly assembling itself is practically zero.
Life is characterized by functions such as reproduction, metabolism, growth, among others. I guess any self replicating molecule would be the most basic form of life.
Amino acids aint all that tough to make,
as they do self assemble under a variety of
conditions. Like even on a comet, say.
Nobody has successfully defined life, so dont
expect yourself to be able to. In the event,
I asked for something else- the bright line
distinction between living and non living.
Nobody knows that either. I will let you work
out how that affects your ideas.
If self replicsting =life, then artificial life is
already a reality in the lab.
The stats and "randomly assembling" things
are creationist canards that get no respect
among biochemists.
Canard, or strawman, nobody proposes that life started
as a cell randomly assembling itself.
On stats, btw, if you take 330 million cubic miles of
water, lots of simple-to-more complex organic molecules
spontaneously self assembling under avariety of condotions,
you've got a lot to work with.
You do recognize that organic molecules do spontaneously
self assemble..?
Then , take into account that reactions tend to happen
pretty fast, multiply the fast and the slow by, oh, a billion
years.