[[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
The reason why I was asking is that I have read about several such experiments, and in each case they must intelligently control the initial conditions, otherwise the RNA will stick to everything it touches. In other words, the initial conditions are intelligently designed (to include the fabrication of the RNA molecule itself).