I have looked at this discussion a few times.
It makes no sense to me.
Synthetic life; new DNA sequences built with never before used DNA molecules coding never known to exist in Earth life amino acids has been done.
Does that count?
Replication of how life originated on Earth? Is that the target? Darwin called the idea, "mere rubbish." We do study abiogenesis today, and with growing interest. For a reasonably current review see:
Deamer, David W.
2011 “First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began” University of California Press
If you want some frog to jump out of a test tube, then you are wasting time.
It makes no sense to me.
Synthetic life; new DNA sequences built with never before used DNA molecules coding never known to exist in Earth life amino acids has been done.
Does that count?
Replication of how life originated on Earth? Is that the target? Darwin called the idea, "mere rubbish." We do study abiogenesis today, and with growing interest. For a reasonably current review see:
Deamer, David W.
2011 “First Life: Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began” University of California Press
If you want some frog to jump out of a test tube, then you are wasting time.
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