The Wrong Question — Why Science Cannot Find the Origin of Life

Modern science makes one fundamental mistake: it searches for the origin of life ina specific molecule.Biochemists search for the first RNA, the first protein, or the first catalytic reaction(Szostak, 2012).Prigogine examines the flow of energy in chemical reactions (Prigogine, 1977).Each field searches for a “trigger of life.”Despite decades of experiments, we still do not know the answer to the most basicquestion:Where did life come from?Maybe because we are asking the wrong question.