QUOTE: "'Something needed to happen for these small molecules to interact and form longer, more complex molecules and that happened completely by chance," says Durand."

DAVID’s comment: A declarative statement that life had to be accidental, yet my bold shows the truth. The certainty of atheism. Same old lab story that manufactured molecules must have happened by chance.

I agree with you completely. It’s on a par with declarative statements like “God did/wanted/wants this/that.” One longs for the voice of reason that says: “We don’t know, but here are some hypotheses…” Or even: “We don’t know, but I choose to blinker myself and believe in this particular hypothesis, despite the absence of proof.”