[exDemMom]

Ok, seems simple enough. When are the scientist going to create life's building blocks? If artificial proteins can be synthesized with all our knowledge we should be able to speed things up so that it doesn't take random chance and 1 billion years to reproduce life. Right? Get cracking little lady.

Too late, it's already been done.

Every component of a cell can be fabricated artificially in a lab. I did most of my PhD research on proteins I engineered myself.

[central_va]

So a billion years ago something that took a supercomputer to replicate today took place by chance? Do you see the dichotomy? Viruses are proteins that need a host to replecate. How could primitive proteins reproduce without a host? You are so lost.