Posted: Mar 17, 2010 7:14 am
A 'grand synthesis' of this sort in the laboratory is not high on the scientific agenda at the moment, which is more concerned with validating the individual hypothesised steps, but once those steps are accepted as valid in the field, doubtless one day a 'grand synthesis' will be attempted, and the success thereof will establish beyond serious doubt that our pale blue dot became our home courtesy of well-defined and testable chemical reactions.
If this experiment will 'establish beyond serious doubt that our pale blue dot became our home courtesy of well-defined and testable chemical reactions', then it follows that there is serious doubt at present.