It's not a single atom. It's molecules. The same way viruses, which are merely RNA, can spontaneously combine and replicate when the elements that make up RNA are mixed together.
The smallest of organisms/life/cells/replicating-collections-of-atoms are not atoms themselves. They are made up of a lot of atoms. It's never been something that happens on a single-atom scale. Think more like water. H2O. Three atoms behaving as one molecule. It was a collection of molecules [which you should understand we already had in abundance; the earth was covered with water and minerals and salts and what-have-you] that grew/combined.
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- 20 Feb. 2013 06:01pm #4