@smidlee
Science has a fairly basic philosophy about nature. Complexity arises from simplicity. The result can appear complex, but the process that brings things about is fairly simple. Take the Carbon atom for an example. We basically understand it very well, and how it forms molecular bonds with other atoms. From that we understand that it has an affinity for forming very large molecules. Does the fact that Carbon can be the backbone for a molecule that contains dozens of atoms mean that the underlying process is complex. That the fact that such a molecule can exist is beyond imagination. No it doesn't mean that at all. All it means is Carbon is predisposed to form such molecules due to its properties.
Don't confuse the final product being complex with the process that made it being complex. Which is what you are arguing for that life appears to be so complex that the only rational explanation is magic. Take for example a forest fire. Which is an insanely complex system. So much so that predicting the behavior even for trained professionals is extremely difficult. Often enough you will find fire fighters talking about fires as if they were alive, or had a mind of their own. That said even though the fire is complex the mechanisms that make it possible, and more importantly the cause are really very simple. A lightning bolt hit a dry tree in a dry forest, and that caused a fire that spread to the other trees. The fire then creates thermal updrafts which causes the air to move more rapidly.
Once again I will say it again, because something appears to be complex. Doesn't require that the causes are complex. A snowflake is complex, but the way in which water in the atmosphere freezes isn't complex at all. The molecules by their nature will line up into patterns. The way organic molecules in certain conditions will automatically form a given structure. No magic need be involved. In fact look into magic tricks to get at what I am trying to explain to you. Every person who sees a magic trick imagines all kinds of fantastic schemes that are rarely close to reality.
I remember when I was a child seeing a magic show with the floating lady and the loop. A lot of my friends saw it too, and every one of us came up with a complex explanation for how the trick was performed. We all assumed it was some incredibly complex thing. We came up with all kinds of fantastic notions. Years later when I found out how the trick was really done. They shove a crooked bar out through the curtains by the way, and the magician just traces the bar. I confess to mentally kicking myself. The explanation was painfully simple. That said at the time we all assumed that, because the trick looked real complex. That the explanation had to be equally complex.
That is why magic works. Our rational minds are manipulated wholesale. We see something that looks impossible so we jump to the conclusion that the cause must be fantastic. This is misdirection at its heart. To get people so focused on what is unimportant to hide the obvious in plain sight. In the case of the floating women it isn't the loop that is the key to getting the trick, but the path that the loop follows.
Anyway there is no magic. You just haven't found the simple trick behind things. I bet you at the end of the day when it comes to the origin of life its going to be incredibly simple. We are probably going to find a single molecule that can be cooked up in a high school lab that is just natures perfect template. On that day we are all probably going to facepalm ourselves. How stupid we had been not to see how a broken Benzene molecule just assembles all the complex things we find in cells. Which will probably last all of one day until we find the next thing that is so complex it must be magical.
