If you are interested in reading more about it, the keyword is "abiogenesis" -- or, as was the case in the books I read 2 decades ago, "prebiotic". Reading abou

If you are interested in reading more about it, the keyword is "abiogenesis" -- or, as was the case in the books I read 2 decades ago, "prebiotic". Reading about it, it is quite obvious that it is hard to think draw up a straight frontier between living and non-living, except for some fairly arbitrary definitions that tend to be wrong in many edge cases. I'm not sure it adds much more to it except that "this is the current scientific consensus". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis