Experiments test how easy life itself might be
Combining theory with experiment, scientists are trying to understand how life can arise from non-life. Researchers are conducting experiments to test the idea that lifelike chemical reactions might develop readily under the right conditions. The work addresses some of the deepest mysteries in biology, and has implications for understanding how common life might be in the universe. Ref. Source 2g.
While this is interesting I think that there was life in the water as it cooled much quicker than the land and was able to support life much sooner than the land. Now if we started out from a land based life form instead of a sea based life form can make a lot a sense in this new theory.