Did life really start with just nine or ten amino acids, or does that tidy story collapse once you look under the hood? This discussion explores claims about the earliest genetic code, why living organisms today depend on far more complex amino acids, and how attempts to reconstruct early life often slip into circular reasoning. We dig into molecular heavyweights like topoisomerase, helicase, and polymerase to show why DNA replication and transcription demand sophisticated machinery from the start, not later. From an engineering perspective, the idea that simpler versions once handled these jobs doesn’t simplify the problem, it multiplies it, raising serious doubts about whether a functional genetic code could exist without complex systems already in place.

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