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> Since then, England, a 35-year-old associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been testing aspects of his idea in computer simulations.

Claiming life was created because a computer said so will convince no one requiring physical proof. The bar for evidence is too low with this experiment.

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But it could at some point provide the key ingredients and conditions to replicate it. Lacking a laboratory of Earth's scale one could use supercomputing (at some point, we're not there yet) to figure out necessary and sufficient conditions, after which hopefully any chemistry student could replicate in the lab with that knowledge. Seems sci-fi now, but I could imagine this happening in a few decades.

Some people believe that a lower bar is more achievable, and will provide learning, feedback, and encouragement to surpass a higher bar.

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