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ELI5: How do/did amino acids combine into RNA/DNA or other self replicating molecules that eventually became life as we know it today?

I have read about the Miller-Urey expriment which eventually showed how all amino acids found in nature can be created by zapping mundane naturally occurring abiotic chemicals with electricity, but I can’t find anything explaining how these amino acids turn into living things or a theory of how.
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The exact instant isn't known.  With the right chemicals in the right ratios, complex structures are possible but unlikely.  That's preventing us from duplicating the event, it might take thousands of years of runtime for millions of little tidal ponds.  Once a structure forms, it can be chemically duplicated over and over until you run out of the right chemicals.tides can allow it to spread between adjacent ponds until it mutates to form a fatty cell boundary around itself to protect it from being diluted.  The changes are random, but the ones that work survive and the rest are lost.