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Right...because people like me impede the progress of science.... get a clue. Go back and read the thread again.
Science is at a standstill will regards to that 'elusive' proof not because people like me are preventing them from getting it... Science simply can't find it...
First of all, no one can go back in time to even know what earth's primitive environment was made of... we can only make a best-educated guess, and for now that is as good as any in attempting to define the starting point... If we then assume that amino acids are precursors to DNA we have to find mechanisms that can build amino acids from even smaller organic precursors such as formaldehyde, methanol, thiols, etc... You then would have to find abiotic means of propeling said reactions... and that's where the train comes to a halt. The envelope required for the entropy of said reaction sets to be satisfied would be so large that nothing else in the natural world would even come close. That's not to say that the creation of amino acids is impossible as even we have created them in a laboratory... the only problem there, is that we interfere excessively in a process that was supposed to occur without any interference or manipulation....
I'll make an analogy for the creation of DNA....
It's like wishing for a bowling ball at the bottom of a 1000-ft hill to suddenly find itself at the top of the hill without assistance. You could let millions of years pass by but the ball would never do that or 'want' to do that on its own. Sure, someone can guide it up there; but then that would be interefering... and that is exactly what we pass off for the creation of amino acids....
Of course, science never counted on the fact that the "ball becomes extremely heavier" the closer you take it to the apex of the hill, and that once there, it immediately wants to roll down again. Rather than allowing the ball to roll down the hill and negate all the work it took to get it there we fix the environment so that everything around the ball is also at 1000-ft... now the ball can't or 'won't' feel the urge to roll down... after all, that is what we do in the laboratory with a purification step...
At this point, we then hope that 100 other bowling balls that made it to this point can all reach the pinnacle of a separate 15,000 ft mountain and create a bigger ball while doing so (this one representing DNA) -- again, unassisted. Can you see the hurdles???
People like me did not place those chemical hurdles there... they were always there. And I'm not assuming Science didn't know about them either... they just know that the average Joe Moe doesn't care enough about these itsy-bitsy details.... conveniently though -- even while peer reviewed -- these methods are passed off as representing the 'genesis of life' reactions... but 'I can see right through their methods' and am not easily fooled.
People like me point to the fact that the 'most widely accepted' theory on nature cannot begin until said hurdles are overcome. Ignoring that would be dismissive of science and not the other way around.
