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166 Primeval Atmosphere, The

According to this the o ry, a fish ac - gas ses con sist ed of am mo nia, meth -
quired fea tures that would per mit it ane, hy dro gen and wa ter va por. On
to live on land while it had no need that as sump tion, they car ried out a
of them. Then when it was ready, it large num ber of ex per i ments aimed
emerged on to dry land to be gin liv - at syn the siz ing ami no ac id mol e cu -
ing there. les, the build ing blocks of life. These
Yet even with in the the o ry of ev - ex per i ments' ob jec tive was to sim u -
o lu tion's own hy poth e ses, there is no late those pri me val at mos pher ic con -
log ic to such a sce nar io. A sea crea - di tions in a lab o ra to ry en vi ron ment.
ture ac quir ing fea tures suit a ble for Nothing about these ex per i ments
dry land gives it no ad van tage. (apart from the fact they pulled the
Therefore, there is no log ic for claim - wool over peo ple's eyes) pro vid ed
ing that these "just in case" fea tures any back ing for ev o lu tion. First of
emerged by means of nat u ral se lec - all, the lab o ra to ry en vi ron ment was
tion. On the con tra ry, a liv ing thing con trolled in ev ery way. Such an en -
un der go ing pre-ad ap ta tion should vi ron ment bore no re sem blance to
be elim i nat ed by means of nat u ral the spon ta ne ous, un con trolled, dis -
se lec tion, since as it ac quires fea tures or dered and de struc tive at mos phere
ap pro pri ate to the land, it will be of the pri me val world.
pro gres sive ly dis ad van taged. The best-known of this se ries of
prim i tive at mos phere ex per i ments
was the Miller Experiment. In that
PRIMEVAL ATMOSPHERE, ex per i ment, Stanley Miller pre pared
THE an ar ti fi cial en vi ron ment sim i lar to
The term "pri me val at mos phere" the pri me val at mos phere in or der to
is used to de scribe the at mos phere show that ami no ac ids could have
when the Earth was first formed. For been syn the sized by chance. To that
a long time, ad her ents of the the o ry end, he re act ed am mo nia, meth ane,
of ev o lu tion main tained that the hy dro gen and wa ter va por—gas ses
prim i tive at mos phere con sist ed of a he as sumed were present in the pri -
mix ture of gas ses that per mit ted the me val at mos phere, but which sub se -
spon ta ne ous ap pear ance of or gan ic quent ly, were re al ized to not be pre-
com pounds that would form the sent at all. As a re sult, he did in deed
build ing blocks of life. Evolutionists syn the size a few ami no ac id forms.
hy poth e sized that these pri me val Yet re search in lat er years re vealed

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