The machinery and processes in a single cell are, to say the least, a bit more than a “very little”.
"They eventually settled on a stripped-down medium with just 19 nutrients3, suggesting that the organism can use some enzymes for multiple tasks."
IMHO, headline writers grab at anything that they think will catch someone. Thanks for the link.
The more we know, the more that the idea of a Master Watchmaker makes sense.
Yea, Verily!! The two final sentences admit a lot about those so-called “simple” one-cell organisms.
And we’re expected to believe, nay, it is demanded that we believe that such living entities came into being through an unimaginably large number of random, undirected, purposeless chemical reactions. I know of professionally respectable, credible scientists who decline to accept such dicta, not because they are religious nut-cakes but simply because they acknowledge the sheer improbability of such a scenario being a representation of objective truth. But they keep such notions pretty much to themselves, especially if they are not yet tenured.