I agree, Mainly because in that environment at the bottom of the ocean the first lifeforms (which were probably very fragile) would have had substance to survive/reproduce while at the same time they would have also been protected from UV light (No ozone layer back then) and/or other radiation from the sun which would take care of any (real or imaged) "Irreducibly complex" problems of having to develop an extensive DNA/RNA repair system at the same time as forming.
I too am really pissed at NASA for wasting money on studying Tomato seeds on the space shuttle which could have been better spent on attempts to probe Europa