Rebutting Life from Clay

There are some people who have thought that the origins of life could have come from clay. Some people have thought that the crystalline structure of clay could have supported prebiotic chemicals to form together.  In one sense this may work because clay keeps out water which many chemicals do not like to react with.  Even if clay could somehow form a random protein than it would most likely be very low - grade sequencing information and because it would not be able to get out of the clay, very repetitive.  This is one of those origin theories that really holds no merit because of it's lack of thought.