Three short points:
1. I personally know a physical chemist who has developed a model explaining how life could have been formed from single elements.
2. The level of scientific knowledge needed to propose this model is far beyond what anyone in the coffee room has demonstrated. I suggest that far-reaching scientific conclusions in either direction be used in this forum with a bit more humility.
3. As science attempts and often succeeds to gradually fill in the gaps in the puzzle of life, it becomes increasingly problematic to use the “scientists have not yet found” claim, or similar claims. Obviously, these claims fall with new discoveries.