"Why we might be alone" Public Lecture by Prof David Kipping

I don’t think it fair to consider chemical reactions = origins of life

I sure wish you’d give specific Hazen quotes, you telling me what you hear Hazen say or write doesn’t cut it.

That’s missing the point. Life didn’t form there, life figured out how to survive there. From my reading seems like extremophiles contain some of the most complex genetic material and machinery.

Yes there were 10^50 rolls of the dice, only one had the stability and the hook to last. Then it took over, with no evidence of any other interference. This is what we know, how far other dice rolls might have gotten is all conjecture.

That’s another thing about evolving systems, there are windows of opportunity, that open and close, timing matters, just as much as location.