“I’ve been interested in the origins of life for some time, so this seemed very interesting to me.”
If you are that interested I suggest that you read Genesis.
The world-renowned crusader for Darwinism and atheism, Prof. Richard Dawkins, states:
‘We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully “designed” to have come into existence by chance.’
http://creation.com/is-there-really-a-god-how-would-you-answer
I read Genesis every year by virtue of the Torah cycle, and have no problem at all relating it with Robert Hazen’s “Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origins”.
God turns up in the universe’s most fascinating places: all of it.
It’s all very simple. Live can live in and on rocks ~ both fungal and bacterial life forms (which are incredibly different), and that means that given 13 billion years to work with, life could have traveled quite a long way to just about everywhere.