Not really, from what I understand, it seems that life just needed a match start with the right amount of momentum in a place where the building blocks were present in abundance. There might have been false starts to life, more than once. I think the rare thing is more for the right conditions (in addition to and especially in relation to the energy source: sun) to be present for the match to spark and then the conditions must be stable enough for the momentum to keep up, like a tornado.