Rad the article. They took existing RNA.
Nucleic acids spontaneously developing has been compared to having a billion billion billion billion chimps pounding for a billion billon billion billion years, under the assertion that one would eventually compose the works of Shakespeare.
This doesn’t change that problem (unless they’ve held back some big results, but these Deus-ex-sludge types seem unlikely to do that), nor does it solve the problem of where did all those typewriters come from. But it does, intriguingly, show that Chimps like to type random keys on a typewriter.
My argument was that the fact an intelligent entity did the experiment does not mean intelligence is part of the process. But you have to walk before your run -- study of abiogenesis is probably one of the most difficult. Until you build a wall tall enough to see over the next hill, you don't know what is waiting there. The numbers game is an old saw tossed out by people who think they see some sort of help for ID-type arguments. The Universe is probably as stochastic as the earth.
This doesn’t change that problem
Nor does it undermine the findings.