Primordial earth and its ancient atmosphere had no lightning until later when atmospheric changes jumpstarted it and began the chemical basis of all protean life.
Standing on Earth almost 4 billion years ago would have been an incredibly hot, desperately lonely, and very short experience – what with there being no oxygen. Now, new research suggests there would have been less lightning around than there is
There are some biologists, such as Richard Dawkins, who still pin their faith in ideas which have resulted only in blankly negative experimental results.