And yet he was willing to admit to his dying day that he had never found solid evidence for that. And that takes courage. I don't know what I am, I don't know how my brain works, I don't know how all the little cells function. We take for granted being highly organized, conscio9us beings. So the laiens may be even weirder than the ones we put in our science fiction novels and movies.
Life appears to be made out of the very ordinary materials of tyhe universe.
Stuff like hydrogen, nnitrogen, carbon and oxygen. So you might assume that life is essentially an ordinary chemical event, just one of those things that can happen sometimes. BUT that said, the origin of life remains a signficant unknown. And I think that's a topic that's just as ridiculous in many ways as space aliens. Particularly because it had inspired so much cultural fascination from Close Encounters to Spock on Star Trek to crazy alien stories.