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Originally Posted by Actor
Thomas Cech and Sidney Altman shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, which showed that life COULD have started as RNA. (emphasis added)
The bold part is what I've been trying (between interruptions) to say all along.
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Coulda, woulda, shouda. For life to exist it must possess those seven properties. Only free-living cells qualify.