Bet 195
Duration 16 years (02005-02020)
PREDICTOR
Rodney T Small
CHALLENGER
Unchallenged
It has been 52 years since the famous Urey/Miller experiment at the U. of Chicago created amino acids -- the building blocks of life -- from non-living matter. However, despite the article's claims and the enormous technlogical progress since 1953, I see no evidence that scientists are any closer today to creating life than they were in 1953. This process seems to me to be so complex and mysterious as to be beyond mankind's ability.