Do you have a link to the whole paper. I’m willing to bet that they have to intelligently set the initial conditions for this to happen. Link please.
The paper is up at ScienceExpress. Unfortunately, that’s a subscription site. It will be published in the next issue or two of Science magazine, as well. The title is “Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme”
http://www.sciencemag.org/sciencexpress/recent.dtl
The background information: materials and methods, references and such are available free at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/1167856/DC1/1
[[Do you have a link to the whole paper. I’m willing to bet that they have to intelligently set the initial conditions for this to happen. Link please.]]
Seriously, it’s nothign significant- it was nothign but another show of MICROEvoltuion and intelligent design- Joyce engineered a specific product that simply does not exist in nature,, then insinuated He ‘created life’- Coyoteman posted a thread on it and it was shown to be nothignm more than yet another falsely inflated claim- taking microevolution and implying it was macroevolution