[js1138]

Amino acids are to life what rubber and iron ore are to automobiles. No one yet has been able to animate those Amino Acids into anything living. Have fun trying.

But until unguided synthesis produced amino acids, they were considered impossible to synthesize. Ignorance is not impossibility.

[Boiler Plate]

Amino acids are still inert and are far cry from life. Many efforts to animate inert matter have been attempted and yet all have failed even with guiding hands. The hope of evolution is that life will always rachet itself up through selection. However the truth is evrything decays down to simpler lower energy forms. Amino acids while they can be synthesized, will break down long before the next quantum leap occurs, that being creating DNA. The concentrations of Amino acids in an open environment, necessary to even begin to combine to form the next step are simply not possible. A lab setup doesn't mean it could happen in the real world, it just means you can do it in a lab. As I stated before Amino Acids are simply the raw materials, it takes specific instructions and energy to form them into anything else. No one has yet figured out how to do that. Creating artificial life is right up there with being able to travel back and forth through time, no number of trite sayings is going to make that possible either. However it always makes for great conversations and I am sure that the Miami Hurricanes wish they could.