"Jack Szostak, University of Chicago professor (formerly at Harvard) is
another heavy-hitter, a Nobel Prize laureate (2009) who contributed
significantly to the Human Genome Project. Asked in June 2022 for his
“best guess for how life began”, he said:
“…
we have to think about … some kind of shallow lake or pond where the
building blocks of RNA were made and accumulated, along with lipids and
other molecules relevant to biology. And then they self-assembled into
lipid vesicles encapsulating RNA, under conditions where the RNA could
start to replicate driven by energy from the sun. And that would allow
Darwinian evolution to get started. … And then you’re off and running,
and life can gradually get more complex and evolve to spread to
different environments, until you end up with what we see around us
today.”
Q: Does that seem rather speculative?
Well, remember that it is his “best guess”. CMI
Claiming to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22
