This book argues these and many other problems go away if we assume the initial accretion was caused by chemistry, including physical chemistry, and our solar system is an archetype for planetary formation. If our water was ammoniacal, why could not the Martian water have been, in which case it would flow at the obvious low temperatures. The case is made that life can only evolve from a planet with Earth’s chemistry, and it evolved around fumaroles. There are at least seven reasons why there will be no life under-ice at Europa. These conclusions mainly come from putting together information already known, together with a few original propositions. The book ends with a large number of predictions, including some from experiments that could be carried out in a lab on Earth.
I am a retired chemist (FRSC) who has published 100 peer reviewed scientific papers in a wide variety of different subjects, and hence have developed the ability to analyse scientific papers in many categories. I have had a long "hobby" interest in space, and eventually concluded that something was missing from the standard theory of how planets accrete and evolve, and that something was chemistry. The basic theory in part two of this book was formed about 1990. Since then new scientific papers have simply confirmed the basic underpinning concept, although with many additional details.