Which came first: DNA or Protein?
A commenter quoting George Church on the ribosome in Paul’s thread reminds me of how I came to be on this side of the ID controversy.
For decades I’d uncritically accepted the notion that life could emerge from chemicals bumping together in a primordial soup and that once started it could evolve through mutation and selection into what we see today. In 1991 I read something from the ID camp that, among other things, pointed to some closely related proteins differing by just several point mutations where any of the mutations occurring singly would be fatal and where all of them occurring at once was statistically almost impossible. In other words, there was no path from A to B that natural selection could take. I suspected what they were saying might be true but in 1991 I didn’t have the time to do any due diligence on what was claimed but a seed of doubt about neo-Darwinian evolution had been planted.