[Junior]

However, you know that once the sequence leading to the first life is demonstrated in the lab, the IDers will point out that it couldn't have come about without the intervention of intelligence -- i.e., the researchers.

[Southack]

"However, you know that once the sequence leading to the first life is demonstrated in the lab, the IDers will point out that it couldn't have come about without the intervention of intelligence -- i.e., the researchers."

Scientific ID'ers will have no problem with Rasmussen's Los Alamos experiment, though a few apostate religionists might.

Rasmussen has a very clever angle, one that is actually mathematically possible (i.e. PNA peptides instead of DNA). Now he's just got to show that it is *physically* possible for a life form that simple to be formed from entirely inanimate original material.

...And he may very well do that precise thing. At this point, however, he's merely the best hope for Evolutionists. It's no sure thing that Rasmussen will succeed, and his failure, should that occur along with the other major abiogenesis experiments worldwide, would again put the Intelligent Design theory back ahead of the various unaided theories of the origin of life.

The jury is still out.