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broken down. Whether it contained oxygen or not, an atmos-
phere on the primordial earth would destroy amino acids.

3. In his experiment, Miller immediately isolated the

amino acids that formed, using a mechanism known as the
cold trap.
Let’s assume that Stanley Miller used gasses that actually
resembled those in the primordial atmosphere. Then would the
results of the experiment support chemical evolution? No! In
addition to such building blocks as amino acids and nucleic
acid bases, his experiments also produced non-biological sub-

stances. Barring human intervention, these substances would
enter into reactions with other useful substances, to form
chemical compounds with no biological significance. As soon
as the amino acids appeared, Miller was obliged to protect them
both from other substances and from the harmful effects of

other conditions in that environment, so his experiment used a
mechanism known as the cold trap. Otherwise, the same con-
ditions that gave rise to the amino acids would have destroyed
these molecules as soon as they formed.
On the primordial Earth, there was no such thing as a cold
trap. Yet without one, even if a variety of amino acid were pro-

duced, those molecules would immediately be broken down in
the prevailing environment. As the chemist Richard Bliss stat-
ed, "Actually, without this trap, the chemical products would
have been destroyed by the energy source" Miller used. 115
Indeed, before Miller installed a cold trap, he had been un-

able to obtain a single amino acid in experiments he had per-
formed.
In fact, Miller's experiment completely discredited the
claim that life emerged as the result of unconscious coinci-