Posted: Mar 14, 2010 1:52 pm
OgreMkV wrote:Assume whatever you like. I'm done with you.
Fair enough.
With the advent of this discovery in appropriate laboratory research, protocell formation is but a short step away, and indeed, the latest research is now actively concentrating upon the minimum components required in order for a viable, self-replicating protocell to exist.
Quite a non-sequitur.
Nevertheless it fails to explain what is meant by a 'short step away' - 1 year?, 10 years?, 100years?
We should not forget that after Miller-Urey it was proclaimed that the synthesis of life was just a short step away.