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

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The simple answer is because we don’t know how to do that. It’s like asking, “Why is it so hard to time travel in a lab?” We don’t know how. Maybe if we knew how, it’d be easy.

We’ve never observed the origins of life, so we can only make educated guesses as to what the causes and conditions were.