Was Life Inevitable?

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There's a new paper that was published yesterday in Physical Biology, going over studies in multiple directions, showing that life coming from just matter and energy is not only possible, but it's probable. They're breaking it down to life=metabolism. If you have something that processes what's around it so that it can process more, then it's life. If you eat and move, you are alive. If there are changes where the next group can eat and move better then the last, it's evolution, and the rest is history. All you need to get this, is complex forms of carbon, and that just needs a lot of something like carbon dioxide interacting throughout places where minerals are broken down, like volcanic vents and bodies of water. One of the researchers stated, "Metabolism appears to be an 'attractor state' within organic chemistry, where it was likely to be selected regardless of earlier stages of chemical evolution" From this, it shows that if you have these kinds of conditions, simple life is bound to form, and if you have simple life, that is constantly trying to do better, then you get evolution, and if you have enough changes. you'll eventually get to plants and animals and where we are, today. So, life is inevitable... given enough space and the right conditions, it will happen, even in molten cores of planets. I think it's great that we're finding these pieces, and we're one step closer to seeing where we actually came from.