"Read more carefully. The article says: "The scientists have synthesized for the first time RNA enzymes that can replicate themselves without the help of any proteins or other cellular components, and the process proceeds indefinitely."
Sorry DBT9,
It doesn't matter what the article says. The fact is
The RNA enzymes are not replicating themselves but each other. At best it is cross replication.
It only proceeds indefinitely if it is provided the "sub units"
What are the "sub units"
From the article
"The subunits in the enzymes the team constructed each contain many nucleotides, so they are relatively complex and not something that would have been found floating in the primordial ooze."
Nor is anyone claiming to know precisely how life got started, just that researchers are exploring possibilities. That it's a work in progress.
DBT9,
You are the one who has precisely stated that
"Life began with strands of self replicating RNA."
DBT9
Life comes from life.
The article states that RNA is not alive.
