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Notwithstanding its long history and compelling motivation, research seekingto explicate the emergence life (EoL) has throughout been a cacophony ofunresolved speculation and dispute; absent still any clear convergence or otherinarguable evidence of progress. This notwithstanding that it has also produceda rich and varied supply of putatively promising technical advances. Notsurprising then the effort being advanced by some to establish a shared basisin fundamental assumptions upon which a more productive community researcheffort might arise. In this essay however, I press a case in opposition. First,that a chasm divides the rich fauna of contesting EoL models into twoconceptually incommensurate classes; here named "chemistry models" (to whichclass belongs nearly all thinking and work in the field, past and present) and"engine models" (advanced in various more-or-less partial forms by a marginalminority of voices dating from Boltzmann forward). Second, that contemporarynon-equilibrium thermodynamics dictates that 'engine-less' (i.e. 'chemistry')models cannot in principle generate non-equilibrium, organized states of matterand are in consequence inherently incapable of prizing life out of inanimatematter.

Boltzmann's casino and the unbridgeable chasm in emergence of life research