That’s the materialist/Darwinist way, which is quintessentially antithetical to the scientific enterprise. Here we learn that:
The earliest cells were unstable chemical systems that survived by combining a handful of shaky carbon-based assemblies together, researchers say.
How do “researchers” know that the earliest cells were unstable chemical systems that survived by combining a handful of shaky carbon-based assemblies together? They know no such thing. They just made it all up. All evidence suggests that the earliest cells must have been highly sophisticated information-processing systems. There is no known chemical or stochastic mechanism that can accomplish this task.
The most important point is to notice the rhetoric: The earliest cells were… This is a statement of certitude — essentially a statement of fact.
The title of the article referenced above is: How the first life on Earth struggled to survive. An honest title would be: Yet more unsupported speculation about how the first life on Earth struggled to survive.