ABSTRACT
Choices can be limited for many reasons. There used to be a potato chip com pany that declared it impossible to limit oneself to eating just one out o f a full bag which one knows is not true. In chemistry, however, there are conditions where “one” is truly not a choice. O n e ’ does not become a significant number until the arrival o f cell biology with restraining membranes. The chemistry o f life’s origin is based upon mass action effects and can never be limited to one outcome! This is the stark, but not necessarily unpleasant, reality that settles the fate o f the Darwinian paradigm. Allow me to take you on an imaginary trip to the Hadean period, the time and place where the problem comes to life, back to the stage o f the reiterative polymer chemistry.
