A Scientific American article admits (way back in 1991) that the "chicken and egg" problem of DNA and proteins has not been solved by the RNA hypothesis. DNA requires proteins to function and proteins are made from DNA. The actual laboratory observations are highly artificial with a "great deal of help from the scientists. " Miller's and Fox's experiments on the origin of proteins and proteinoids, which supposedly produced "protocells," are essentially dead ends. Clever attempts at producing life in the lab only demonstrate that life can be produce by intelligence. The story of life originating in clay crystals and deep-ocean vents are just stories, with no observational data to confirm them. In all, much more research is needed to even begin to answer the question of the origin of life in a materialistic framework. Creationists need only accept that God has created life and study the changes that have occurred since creation.
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