[js1138]

One thing you, nor the high school students, nor any other human will ever be able to do is make amino acids from nothing. You can only use what is already in existence.

The original proposition was "from scratch". Perhaps your mother never taught you to bake a cake, but in my household, "from scratch" means from the simplest available ingredients. My mamma could bake a cake from scratch without having to create the universe first.

[MEGoody]

I never said you couldn't use what currently exists to make something else. In fact, if you read my post, I said you might be able to do that very thing. I merely said that you can never create something from nothing. Don't get all upset. LOL