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Matt E "And doesn't it go against thermodynamics for DNA or RNA
to form out of the constituents?" -Don't certain RNA chains have
catalytic properties, and so their production(from random
nucleotides bonding) lowers the energy required for more bonding
to occur(and so the 2nd law has not been violated)? "what good
would DNA be when you have no machinery to translate it into
proteins?" -Again, the fact that RNA can serve as a catalyst
demonstrates that proteins may not be required for the
replication of RNA, or even DNA molecules. We then have a
molecule that replicates(though not very well) and can store
information-all that is required for Darwinian evolution to take
place.