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In a universe with billions and billions of galaxies, each with billions of different solar systems, it just makes the word "unlikely" almost disappear (especially if we consider the conditions which were used by the scientists mentioned in this article, these conditions aren’t that rare at all in our universe!).

It is not that the universe has to match our experiment; it is the other way around. Nature simply has its laws for creating life, and we are still trying to replicate how this laws work by using the scientific method of trial and error. And after this discovery, we are getting closer and closer to finding out how life assembles itself from lifeless molecules. Simplicity becomes complex on its own thanks to the natural laws. And without the need of a creator.

I, like any scientist, would ask for no less; this experiment has to be able to be repeated over and over again by anyone else who wants to try it. Otherwise it wouldn’t comply with one of the rules of the scientific method, in which case there would be no way to call this science.