>All the steps have been seen. Proto-life has been observed forming in the lab. Life itself has been assembled from non-living components.<
What a bunch of crap!
What are you calling "proto-life"?
And what in the heck are you referencing regarding "Life itself has been assembled from non-living components."?
Well, hell, who can argue with *that* ironclad and well-reasoned rebuttal?
> What are you calling "proto-life"?
Complex organic molecules that do pretty much everythign that "life" is supposed to do. Self replication, etc.
> what in the heck are you referencing regarding "Life itself has been assembled from non-living components."?
The polio virus was assembled in a lab some months ago using a gene sequence downloaded off the Web, and some raw chemicals.