how was life created from nonliving things?

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and does this mean we can recreate this process to manipulate life into whatever we want?

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Answer 1

To answer your second question, in the early 2000s scientists were able to recreate the polio virus in a lab from its constituent parts https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1490301/.

Viruses occupy a space that straddles the line between life and non-life to they’re a good candidate for something like this.