I took a course from the Complexity Explorer on the origins of life. It made the point that although understanding life is hard, life is actually seemingly easy

I took a course from the Complexity Explorer on the origins of life. It made the point that although understanding life is hard, life is actually seemingly easy when considered in terms of it showing up or starting. It pointed to evidence that life began basically as soon as Earth formed, basically as soon as the oceans arrived. The Solar System itself has plenty of examples of water. For example, Enceladus is surmised to be completely covered in an ocean below its icy crust. As far as I know, there's not much evidence that points to life as being special. Earth is certainly special in the time window that we are experiencing it in given its balances of energy, heat, water, etc. Utilizing models to predict what's out there doesn't seem all that controversial when evidence points to life not being all that hard cosmically. We just don't have strong enough binoculars yet.