>>520987lipid world theory actually approaches a lot of this, but a big issue with it is that it's likely that viruses with the earliest genetic material of some sort of RNA were extraterrestrial in origin and then combined into existing liposomes and other organic materials that are still found on earth today into some sort of protocell in some thermal vent.
Regardless, there's good reasons why religion is more prevalent among well-versed chemists and physicists.