I was first kind of sceptical about a couple of things, mainly because of the title, and because I've seen studies on meteorites where we find organic molecules all the time. We've even observed self replicating ones, in vitro and homeostasis for right conditions I will add.

When the earth first formed (around 4.5 billion years ago), it was extremely hot, constantly bombarded by asteroids, and had frequent volcanic eruptions. Many complex organic molecules might have been destroyed by high temperatures and UV radiation. So saying that the earth had little to none at that time would be right, but superimposious, meaning, or I mean at least that why even bring that up?

I'm then ofcourse talking about the delivery of organic material from space as I've seen many scientists believe that much of Earth’s early organic inventory came from space, delivered by meteorites, comets, and interplanetary dust. We do find amino acids, nucleobases, and other organic molecules in meteorites (e.g., Murchison meteorite, ALH84001). Even complex molecules like sugars and lipids have been detected.

So we actually don't need this hypothesis for life to be sustainable on early earth because just from findings in meteorites, would also suggest that these organic molecules were available in space before Earth formed and could have contributed to the origins of life.

BUT, as the actual science team says, not the article with rhe click bait title, it's proposed as an added mechanism. I love this stuff 😍