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DARWINISM REFUTED

So why did Miller insist on these gases? The answer is simple:
without ammonia, it was impossible to synthesize any amino acid. Kevin
Mc Kean talks about this in an article published in Discover magazine:
Miller and Urey imitated the ancient atmosphere on the Earth with a mixture
of methane and ammonia. ...However in the latest studies, it has been
understood that the Earth was very hot at those times, and that it was
composed of melted nickel and iron. Therefore, the chemical atmosphere of
that time should have been formed mostly of nitrogen (N ), carbon dioxide
2
(CO ) and water vapour (H O). However these are not as appropriate as
2 2
methane and ammonia for the production of organic molecules. 249
The American scientists J. P. Ferris and C. T. Chen repeated Miller's
experiment with an atmospheric environment that contained carbon
dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, and water vapor, and were unable to obtain
even a single amino acid molecule. 250
3- Another important point that invalidates Miller's experiment is
that there was enough oxygen to destroy all the amino acids in the
atmosphere at the time when they were thought to have been formed.
This fact, overlooked by Miller, is revealed by the traces of oxidized iron
found in rocks that are estimated to be 3.5 billion years old. 251
There are other findings showing that the amount of oxygen in the
atmosphere at that time was much higher than originally claimed by
evolutionists. Studies also show that the amount of ultraviolet radiation to
which the earth was then exposed was 10,000 times more than
evolutionists' estimates. This intense radiation would unavoidably have
freed oxygen by decomposing the water vapor and carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.
This situation completely negates Miller's experiment, in which
oxygen was completely neglected. If oxygen had been used in the
experiment, methane would have decomposed into carbon dioxide and
water, and ammonia into nitrogen and water. On the other hand, in an
environment where there was no oxygen, there would be no ozone layer
either; therefore, the amino acids would have immediately been
destroyed, since they would have been exposed to the most intense
ultraviolet rays without the protection of the ozone layer. In other words,
with or without oxygen in the primordial world, the result would have
been a deadly environment for the amino acids.

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