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Gerald Joyce is a researcher at The Scripps Research Institute, and

Dr. Leslie Orgel is an evolutionist microbiologists at the Salk Institute
for Biological Sciences in San Diego:
This discussion... has, in a sense, focused on a straw man: the myth of a
self-replicating RNA molecule that arose de novo from a soup of random
polynucleotides. Not only is such a notion unrealistic in light of our cur-
rent understanding of prebiotic chemistry, but it would strain the creduli-
ty of even an optimist's view of RNA's catalytic potential. 150

Dr. Leslie Orgel:
This scenario could have occurred, we noted, if prebiotic RNA had two
properties not evident today: A capacity to replicate without the help of
proteins and an ability to catalyze every step of protein synthesis. 151
Manfred Eigen is a German biophysicist and former director of the

Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen:
One can safely assume that primordial routes of synthesis and differenti-
ation provided minute concentrations of short sequences of nucleotides
that would be recognized as 'correct' by the standards of today's bio-
chemistry. 152
John Horgan is a writer for Scientific American magazine:

DNA cannot do its work, including forming more DNA, without the help
of catalytic proteins, or enzymes. In short, proteins cannot form without
DNA, but neither can DNA form without proteins. 153

The biologist Francis Hitching describes how not one single fossil
supporting the theory of evolution has ever been found:
If we find fossils, and if Darwin's theory was right, we can predict what
the rock should contain; finely graduated fossils leading from one group
of creatures to another group of creatures at a higher level of complexity.
The 'minor improvements' in successive generations should be as readily
preserved as the species themselves. But this is hardly ever the case. In
fact, the opposite holds true. 154