"Solution" to an Origin of Life Puzzle Highlights the Need for Careful Planning by an Intelligent Investigator

Last week they found the oldest human ancestor (a tiny scrap of a jaw) and now, as ENV earlier noted, they've solved a major puzzle in the origin of life. Science reports that "Researchers may have solved origin-of-life conundrum," claiming that a new paper in Nature Chemistry may show that many building blocks of life could have been created through organic chemistry on the early Earth.

The Science report starts with what I've called in the past a "retroactive confession of ignorance." Wha...