[AndrewC]

His argument is built around evidence "from the three main cellular information processing systems" – translation, transcription and replication – and he suggests that cellular evolution progressed in that order, with translation leading the way.

Oops! Darwinians will even like that less. Replication is supposed to have the honored position. That also implies something on the order of RNA world.

[donh]

Oops! Darwinians will even like that less. Replication is supposed to have the honored position. That also implies something on the order of RNA world.

How so? This saves Darwinian hours of public time trying to answer the thesis that you can't expect random interactions to suddenly create a prokariote. The "whirlwind can't build a 747" argument.

[Nebullis]

Oops! Darwinians will even like that less. Replication is supposed to have the honored position. That also implies something on the order of RNA world.

Replication does have the honored position. Woese is talking about translation in the evolution of cellular organization.