Status Updates From The Emergence of Life: From...

So far, nobody has even taken a cell a part and reassembled it, such that it continues to function... let along create a minimum cell. the only work to create a minimum cell I'm aware works, it Knocking out the enzymes of a cell (mutating its DNA) and seeing whether it can continue to replicate.

the question of how a cell can divide to form another is only one of many... the 1st more important question is, how does a cell Know when to divide to form another cell... you can say its a just a matter of acquiring the critical mass but what if a cell wants stasis (not to divide) this book covers Nothing of the complexity of BIOLOGY... but analysis is the small steps at a time... and yet, they've haven't got them

No spherical lipid bubbles in the lab (even autocatalytic) can't be considered Precursor to cell's wall lipid bilayers... they're much more complex and origin of life is nowhere close to replicating them.

Nobody yet knows how Protein Folding occurs ... yes AI and human intuition can start to predict what will happen with Natural Folding of a Protein in non-cellular matrix... but with the golgi and heat shock and other assistant enzyme we Still have no clues.

and with lots of scientific hand waving and snaps of ignited sparklers... your kinetics of spontaneous assembly of lipid cellular boundaries Does Not Happen.... it's a bubble bust... Not shown in a lab... all your maths wasted on the reader. too stupid

author uses another overused hyperbole... that of self organization of soap bubbles in water... which has NOTHING TO DO WITH Lipid Bilayers of eukaryotic cells... which We Still Don't Know how to do in a chemistry lab!

fortunately (with hind sight) we know that all this author's tempting theories which they were trying 20 years ago... Didn't Work! And that today they Origin of Life field is still Stuck with almost Nothing Chemical Synthetically to hang its hat on! So, this book is Just another book of authors hyping theory which Never pans out.

stanley miller stanley miller stanley miller stanley miller what crap... No stanley didn't make anything more significant than urea! so what

what makes the author think the apple which fell from the tree Just died... does it know that seeds in that apple can sprout and build new trees (or not)... the Qs for the reader leave unsaid all the many Qs the author will never discuss which contradict its mechanistic order it gives our living would. it's much more complex than it/they give it

here the author is too ignorant of viral life (questionable) because it represents non-cellular DNA/RNA programming that widely reproduces in its environment of biotic life around it. the author of an emergence book, one would think, would know this. too stupid huh

this author doubts the farmer understands the green man's scientific conclusions about what is life... what a condescending dick. this author is full of its own programmed biased and can't likely think to itself of anything useful to say about how life started... but I'll read and see if this guy isn't the ass I think it is.