New theory on how life began

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Of course it's an inevitable event, but as of yet we don't know why. We don't know what process causes it. The laws of Chemistry on their own appear to be insufficient to explain it.

The problem though is that our universe should be "noisy" from all the other intelligent life and it isn't.

You slipped the word "intelligent" in there.  There is nothing in evolution which suggests that intelligence is more highly prized than say, fertility.