The whole point of the article was discussing how RNA isn't the orgin of life and we need to push our ideas back further. RNA-Peptide coevolution is the sponta

The whole point of the article was discussing how RNA isn't the orgin of life and we need to push our ideas back further. RNA-Peptide coevolution is the spontaneous immergence of 'replicating' matter. No one molecule in the system has all the requisites for life, but as a whole they do. (I.E.amino acids and nucleobases can transmit information, replicate, move and 'sense' about the world). Pushing this idea of self-replicating orgiins of life back may illuminate the issue. RNA generation doesn't have to be random, it can be selected for like any other evolutionary proceses. Finally, Listen to what you are saying... The rhetoric was much different 10 years ago. We have scientifically narrowed the limit of what we can't explain, and this very small gap in our knowledge is what's left. We are making progress in understandng the origins of life.