"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecQ64l-gKM&amp;t=6m28s"">6:28</a> Statement on selection preceding biology. I had to write this out to really try to absorb it (paraphrased a bit): "(Where there's bonds there's hope...) If atoms can combine and form bonds", those bonds can form different identities and interact with each other differently and you can start to have some degree of causation (or interaction) and then selection, and then existence...from there you can go up the path of complexity..."