@DNA Thumbs drive,
Quote: Your article describes a fully manmade process, like nano mechanics, sure it's interesting but certainly not life.
that's the whole point. We already know about such things as hex-deoxy-nucleotides or ribozymes in nature (They stimulate replication and can be traced to a specific 20-23 atom molecule.
ribozymes and simple deoxy0nucleotides can ASSEMBLE, ligate, and cleave. Thir discovery was the basis for "RNA world" preaching.
Of course its not developed as a strong theory but its been a start point since the early 80's.
We create it in the lab, then try to duplicate it under field conditions.
Who knows, it may be a "warm little pond" with a clay substrate in a reducing environment.
SCience doesn't have its mind made up like you. It searches for "POSSIBILITIES"
However, all this is novice but its not evolution Thumby.