Interesting article. It exposes some of the human's desire to overreach the limitations of its knowledge.

"If biology is an inherent property of matter, why have chemists so far been unable to reconstruct life, or anything close to it, in the laboratory?"

I thought they had. No? I saw Carl Sagan do a laboratory experiment on his Cosmos series during the '80s in which molecules started replicating themselves in some kind of organic or chemical soup ... something like that. He was talking about the origins of life and proposing that it might not be all that magical, as I recall.

It's to bad there's no way to go back and look at things then say, yes, this is exactly how and why life happened.