How on earth CNN came up with the headine for this one is beyond me. I guess many scientists have given up on proving that life originated on earth, and are now hoping that space holds the answers. This particular experiment 1 produced some membranes, but they are a purely physical phenomenon like soap bubbles, lacking the complex pumps found in real cell membranes. So instead of being repelled by the oil droplet, the droplet is surrounded by the 'water-loving' heads of the molecule, and now can be washed away. Paul Davies, author of The Fifth Miracle , and an anti-creationist, pointed out that a cell membrane is far less of a problem than generating the encyclopedic information content needed to code for all the large molecules needed for life.
Houses are hard because they involve elaborately organized complexity.
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