Perhaps a very minor quible, but I see no reason why there could not have been multiple biogenesis (note the lack of "a" at beginning) events. The earth's a big place - Why only one?
Because life's tree would seem to have just one root, and all life uses a more or less common plan in certain fundementals (DNA, etc). However it could be that there was more than one event, and it's simply that only one survived.