"This "primordial soup" concept was first posited by Oparin and Haldane in 1924, and whiz-kids Miller and Urey in 1953 actually cooked up a soup of amino acids in the laboratory and jump-started it with an electric arc to create new amino acids, which they initially trumpeted as "life"."
It's been a while since I've read about it but I'm pretty sure no competent scientist would consider amino acids as "life" and, as such, I'd have to say you're stretching the truth just a bit.
"The science writers of the time echoed their call, and the national media breathlessly anticipated the immediate mass suicide of the pope and the college of cardinals, as they capitulated to the superiority of Darwin's theories."
Hyperbole. How quaint.
"Alas! The Big Breakthrough of Science vs. Religion was not now ; for it turned out that the amino acids generated by Miller & Urey in 1953 (and by every laboratory experiment after that) were right-handed amino acids, while left-handed amino acids are necessary for life (a principal known as "homochirality" - who knew?)"
You're shifting the goal posts and either intentionally or not misunderstanding the point of the experiment.
According to your side (I assume you're some creationist nimrod), "life" can only be created by your particular invisible friend. The Miller-Urey experiment showed that it's at least possible to create amino acids in an environment similar to an early Earth, which is all they were attempting to do.
If you were correct in your assertions, no chemicals necessary to life should be able to be created artificially. Since it's a relatively short leap from amino acids to life you've shifted the goal posts and expect an actual life form to be created to prove you wrong (which, sadly for you, is not far off as scientists are working on creating bacteria whole-cloth, so to speak, rather than just manipulating the DNA of pre-existing organisms.).
"Now we learn that - in twenty to forty years (!) - with the help of "millions of computers" we might be able to simulate one living cell!"
We can simulate them just fine in a computer. Hell, my laptop could probably simulate an entire colony of a few million cells.
If by "simulate" you mean "create" then, as I said, you're sadly mistaken if you think we're that far away. I believe it's the Japanese that are on the cutting edge of creating bacteria that have never existed before. The only pre-existing component will be the cell wall itself which will be taken from another bacterium.
"A million computers twenty years of processing = one cell! Wow!"
And?
Even if it takes a billion computers and 20 billion years your assertion that scientists can't create life would be fucking wrong.
"Folks, the Bible's "In the Beginning, God created....." are starting to make more sense every day!"
Only if you somehow managed to drop the Bible on your head before you began reading.
