@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:What Herald SHOULD have been calculating, if he could ...
No, I can't do such calculation mumbo-jumbo because it is missing the justification for plausibility. At first you have to prove then when you stir up in a barrel of stainless steel, for example, a mixture containing 65% O, 18.5% C, 9.5% H, 3.2%N, 1.5% Ca, 1.0% P, 0.3 S, 0.2% Na, 0.2% Cl, 0.1 Mg and add to this Cr, Co, Cu, F, I, Fe, Mn, Mo, Se, Si, Sn, V and Zn as trace elements, you are able to make a human out of that, and I immediately after that I will start calculating the probability. The key-phrase is: 'hardly after that and not before'.
MontereyJack wrote: ... was the probability of chemistry and physics producing some much simpler structure.
It doesn't matter how much simpler the biological structure might be - you cannot make it by 'chemistry and physics' ... and if you think that the bacteria are 'much simpler structure' why don't you think again. We have a nano-bio-motor drive (of the flagella) with dimensions of nanometers. Can you make a motor drive with that dimensions - out of whatever you like ... and without using any intelligence.