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

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Mainly because we don’t precisely know what life is. There are thousands and thousands of processes within the most basic elements of life, and probably many of them we don’t even know about yet, and of those processes that we know, we don’t know what they do, there are many that we know that we don’t know how they do their stuff, and many that we don’t know why they their stuff. In short, life is far more complex than any process we know how to create in a lab – maybe we will one day, but for now we just don’t know enough about what life is to create it from scratch.

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