RNA/Origins of Life created in Lab

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog...t-weve-tr.html

They started with the same chemicals available on our prebiotic-era planet and started smashing them together until they got the RNA combination - and if a single lab can make it in a decade, you can bet an en entire world with millions of years made it eventually. These reactions aren't based on cunning design by intelligent observers, simply on finding what's energetically possible - with vats the size of oceans, random chance will eventually ram every option together. They kept combining until they worked out how we all came to be, and by their sheer existence they say "See, people, THIS is what you do with years of dedication. Not a level 80 craftsman."

Taking over where Miller & Urey left off...

This is very interesting but it's still early days for this type of experiment. Once it has be duplicated with similar results then we will be able to say we have strengthened the plausibility of the "primordial soup" model.