Why has science utterly failed in synthesizing even the most basic forms of life, when using the same elements?

that were in the primitive Earth atmosphere? Don't "Miller-Ulrey" me. Those half-century-old experiments were conducted with elements completely unlike what today's scientists say must have constituted the early atmosphere. He used methane and ammonia....precisely because he knew that it would be more likely to give him the desired result. But scientists say the primitive atmosphere was primarily nitrogen, carbion dioxide and water.