Abiogenesis. A step closer.

[Darwinian]

Just read this and was mind boggled. Although it's not quite creating self-replicating chemicals from nothing, it's getting pretty close.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/...ngrna.html

This is pretty astounding as well.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14...e-lab.html

[Tiberius]

I frequently use Lenski's experiment as an example of Evolution when talking to people who don't believe it. The article on chemical evolution / self replication was fascinating though

[LukeMC]

Awesome stuff
I'd love to work on projects like that when I'm older. Just took my chemistry exam yesterday. A high grade would be quite useful in following this little dream

[lukec]

Very cool experiment. Wonder what the creationist dismissal of it will look like...

[LukeMC]

"This is exactly how God created early bacteria 6 thousand years ago. They have since developed into the bacteria of today. The rest of the kinds on His Earth were not created in such a way. They were created in present form. This experiment doesn't prove that we evolved from germs, only that germs evolved from germs."

Or something dumb like that

[Demonaura]

scary close mate, scary close.

[Rob]

Ohh, how exciting.