Wonderful. Let's see someone -- anyone -- replicate the creation of the simplest form of life from inorganic elements in a laboratory.
After 50 years of unsuccessful attempts, these experiments were virtually all discontinued in the late 90's.
Such a lot of nonsense.
50 years do not equate to millenia and much much more time.....how naive
I don't think the article suggests that DNA spontaneously appeared from electrifying protein precursors. The jury is still out on how DNA came to be.
Funny, such experiments still go on. And with the rise of nanotechnology and molecular machining, are likely to be successful. Why ? To understand what life is, you HAVE to be able to model it, and re-create the processes. That's standard scientific and engineering practice: you take it apart, see how it works, and re-build it, or build it from scratch. We're only now approaching the technological level where artificially-created life becomes a possibility. . . .
It only took the Earth, like, a billion years to generate life! What's wrong with these scientists?
/sarcasm
It took nature nearly a half billion years to come up with the first primitive organism on this planet and yet you expect science to do it overnight.
do you know of any attempt to "replicate the creation of the simplest form of life" involving a continuous 500,000,000 year trial period, uncountable yottajoules of electrical discharge, and zettatonnes of organic slurry, in a lab spanning 201,280,000 square miles?
No?
then sit down, and attempt to come up with an intelligent objection.