All can develop, and will develop in the right circumstances, given the properties of matter. But these transitions are not mysterious inexplicable events requiring the hand of God to explain. They were from the beginning inherent in the properties of matter. It cannot have occurred by chance, therefore here a deity had to intervene. No matter is dead.
All matter is brilliantly alive, ready to take on an infinity of new forms.
If we insist that mind is different from matter, then we are saying that we are not at home in our bodies or in the universe. We are different from the rest of nature. Matter is infinitely mysterious. Other people still hanker after an irreducible mystery in the universe. They feel there must be an element of mind or spirit infusing the whole.