ELI5- chemically speaking, why is it so difficult to recreate life in a lab?

Question

Basically the title

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Answer 1

That’s because life is believed to be a result of random events over a long period of time

As an aside but interesting point, there was an [experiment](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment) that aimed to create life in lab and sort-of got good results..