. John Doherty | August 00, 0000 at 0:00 am | Reply First off, 0 billion years ago the earth was a, well, a hell on earth, not sutible for life. Second, they may have found the answer for ONE part of the whole cells created themself theory. However, the numbers still speak otherwise. There are 00 different amino acids that make up a functioning protein chain. Protein chains a cell range from 000 to 00,000 amino acid ‘links'. If even 0 link has an incorrect amino acid, the chain will not function. If you assume the typical chain has 000 links, this works out to a 0 in 00 