Let's say we have two ribozymes:

1. This one is selected to survive in the environmental
heat cycle caused by the sun.

2. This one has escaped the UV, hidden from the sun
and is a replicating fluke.

Both may well survive to reproduce. Yet the 2nd has
cut off its energy source - that being the only non random consistent energy
source on the planet - 
the strongest energy source on the planet,
the energy source  that most all living things 
depend on today.
Which is the most likely to lead to life?

Point is - replicating is not enough, you must 
replicate something that will survive its environment.

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