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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

which were "dried out" in this way, could then have combined to form
proteins.
However this "complicated" way out was not accepted by many
people in the field, because the amino acids could not have endured such
high temperatures. Research confirmed that amino acids are immediately
destroyed at very high temperatures.
But Fox did not give up. He combined purified amino acids in the
laboratory, "under very special conditions," by heating them in a dry
environment. The amino acids combined, but still no proteins were
obtained. What he actually ended up with was simple and disordered
loops of amino acids, arbitrarily combined with each other, and these
loops were far from resembling any living protein. Furthermore, if Fox
had kept the amino acids at a steady temperature, then these useless loops
would also have disintegrated.
Another point that nullified the experiment was that Fox did not use
the useless end products obtained in Miller's experiment; rather, he used
pure amino acids from living organisms. This experiment, however,
which was intended to be a continuation of Miller's experiment, should
have started out from the results obtained by Miller. Yet neither Fox, nor
any other researcher, used the useless amino acids Miller produced.
Fox's experiment was not even welcomed in evolutionist circles,
because it was clear that the meaningless amino acid chains that he
obtained (which he termed "proteinoids") could not have formed under
natural conditions. Moreover, proteins, the basic units of life, still could
not be produced. The problem of the origin of proteins remained
unsolved. In an article in the popular science magazine, Chemical
Engineering News, which appeared in the 1970s, Fox's experiment was
mentioned as follows:
Sydney Fox and the other researchers managed to unite the amino acids in
the shape of "proteinoids" by using very special heating techniques under
conditions which in fact did not exist at all in the primordial stages of Earth.
Also, they are not at all similar to the very regular proteins present in living
things. They are nothing but useless, irregular chemical stains. It was
explained that even if such molecules had formed in the early ages, they
would definitely be destroyed. 257
Indeed, the proteinoids Fox obtained were totally different from real

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