[papertyger]

Has there still been no progress in "origin of life" studies?

None. Zero. Zip.

The Scientific/Cultural mandarins gave up on the question as unknowable and irrelevant.

[raygunfan]

again, it is given up on as ‘unknowable and irrelevant’ because it points to our creator God of the bible, and well, better the devil you know than to admit what is right in front of their atheistic lying faces...

[BroJoeK]

BJK: "Has there still been no progress in "origin of life" studies?"

papertyger: "None. Zero. Zip.
The Scientific/Cultural mandarins gave up on the question as unknowable and irrelevant."

I think not.
In fact, growth in understandings of biology & chemistry in the past 63 years has been as great as in any other scientific field, for examples:

What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology Addy Pross, 2012

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life Nick Lane, 2015

A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth Ward & Kirschvenk, 2015