As they have since Darwin first wrote the "Origin of the Species".
And exactly how close are they?? Did the vermicelli wiggle?
Course not. Listen closely, Frankenstein; we're as close to spontaneously creating life today, as was Darwin.
The chances of creating life in a laboratory is the same chance that life on Earth would happen. There are 20 different Amino Acids that make up every living being on Earth, and the chances of them coming together, in such a sequence, along with the other ideal conditions, at the exact premier moment in Earth's history are so remote as to be impossible. Some scientists have concluded that if the history of the Earth were rewound on tape to the point before life started, and played again a trillion times, you still wouldn't have life. More over, there were at least 5 major extinction's, and several minor ones that took place that ensured you would be sitting here reading this post.
In short, your chances of being here are very, very slim, OUTSIDE of a Divine Being.