How did life start?

Primal soup? Panspermia? The Force? God’s little finger? What’s your favorite theory, if you have one?

The primal soup still seems like the most probably option to me, although I find it difficult to fathom. The complexity of even the most basic life forms is such that it’s hard to see how random chemistry could produce it.

Panspermia is also a possibility but it only displace the question to another level (how did life start in the universe?).

Note that this is not about evolution, it’s about how life started on our planet/universe.