I think I understand why @thoughtful refuses to believe living matter could arise from inanimate matter. Its because it would make God seem irrelevant and she is scared of that. We can point out the natural causes of many aspects of the natural world that were once thought to have supernatural causes and that has made supernatural explanations less reliable (if not totally ‘useless’) to science. So if the origin of life is taken away from the realm of conjecture and can be shown to explicable by natural mechanisms, that would strike a heavy blow to the claims of YECs like her.
That was my thought as well, specifically Friedrich Wöhler providing wrong the many Christians who had claimed, “Only living things can produce organic compounds. They are unique to living organisms and it is arrogant and presumptuous for mere man to think that he will ever defy the ways of God’s creation and synthesize the chemicals of life in a laboratory.”
Citation for the quote?