Originally Posted by Darkland

Nor did I state that they had... yet. They are very close and excerpts from those articles are:

?Creating protocells has the potential to shed new life on our place in the universe,? Bedau said. ?This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role.?

"His idea is that once the container is made, if scientists add nucleotides in the right proportions, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over."

which leads us into the other articles where we ARE creating nucleotides from the elements...

"Like other would-be nucleotide synthesizers, Sutherland?s team included phosphate in their mix, but rather than adding it to sugars and nucleobases, they started with an array of even simpler molecules that were probably also in Earth?s primordial ooze."

"They mixed the molecules in water, heated the solution, then allowed it to evaporate, leaving behind a residue of hybrid, half-sugar, half-nucleobase molecules. To this residue they again added water, heated it, allowed it evaporate, and then irradiated it."

?By changing the way we mix the ingredients together, we managed to make ribonucleotides,? said Sutherland. ?The chemistry works very effectively from simple precursors, and the conditions required are not distinct from what one might imagine took place on the early Earth."

We WILL be capable of creating evolving life in the very close future. THIS is what I was and am pointing out.