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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 (CO ) and water vapor (H O).
2 2 2
However these are not as appropriate as methane and ammonia for the production
of organic molecules. 3
From an article titled “The Origin of Life on Earth” in the March 1998 edition of
National Geographic:
Many scientists now suspect that the early atmosphere was different to what Miller
first supposed. They think it consisted of carbon dioxide and nitrogen rather than
hydrogen, methane, and ammonia. That's bad news for chemists. When they try
sparking carbon dioxide and nitrogen, they get a paltry amount of organic mole-
cules-the equivalent of dissolving a drop of food coloring in a swimming pool of
water. Scientists find it hard to imagine life emerging from such a diluted soup. 4
Harold Urey (an ev o lu tion ist sci en tist who per formed the Miller Experiment to -
geth er with his stu dent Stanley Miller):
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more
we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of
faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that its complexity
is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did. 5
Homer Jacobson, an American mi cro bi ol o gist:
Directions for the reproduction of plans, for energy and the extraction of parts from
the current environment, for the growth sequence, and for the effector mechanism
translating instructions into growth-all had to be simultaneously present at that
moment [when life began]. This combination of events has seemed an incredibly
unlikely happenstance... 6
Dr. Leslie Orgel:
It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which are struc-
turally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the same time. Yet it al-
so seems impossible to have one without the other. And so, at first glance, one
might have to conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical
means. 7

1- Stanley Miller, Molecular Evolution of Life: Current Current Status of the Prebiotic Synthetis of Small Molecules,
1986, p. 7.
2- “Life's Crucible,” Earth, February 1998, p. 34.
3- Kevin Mc Kean, Bilim ve Teknik (“Science and Technology”), No. 189, p. 7.
4- “The Rise of Life on Earth," National Geographic, March 1998, p. 68.
5- W. R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Co. , 1991, p. 325.
6- Homer Jacobson, "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life," American Scientist, January 1955, p. 121.
7- Leslie E. Orgel, "The Origin of Life on Earth," Scientific American, vol. 271, October 1994, p. 78.