[Antoninus]

And simpler-still free-floating RNA chains could be definable as organisms.

Trouble is, the leap from free-floating amino acids to free-floating RNA chains is actually much greater and more unfathomable than the leap from an RNA chain to a gorilla.

When someone is able to generate a functional strand of RNA in a lab ex nihilo let me know, will you?

[orionblamblam]

> When someone is able to generate a functional strand of RNA in a lab ex nihilo let me know, will you?

And tell me: when that occurs, what will you have to say?