Quote: "Mankind hasn't come *close*"
Mankind is inferior to nature
Quote: "Care to explain your idea of how big a step between amino acid and one, single cell is? I'd love to know."
So would I, but my assumtion is, as I already said somewhere, if you have something simple, give it a simple process and some time you will get something complex, "just like a fractal".
Quote: "It's easy to just assume that once you have amino acides then logically a cell will just magically follow"
It's easy to assume a lot of magical causes for life
Don't you just hate that Zotoaster guy?