Which came first, DNA or protein???  Some think it was proteins forming in warm ocean tidepools.  Others think it was actually RNA first, then DNA, then protein.  But in order to have DNA some proteins are required and to have functioning proteins the information in DNA is required.  So what does it mean if one must have both DNA and protein simultaneously in order to have either one......?  Uplook Magazine, March 2005, p. 18.  References:  A.E. Wilder-Smith.  The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution,  Master Books, San Diego, CA 1981.