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dences. He demonstrated that amino acids can be obtained only
when there is conscious intervention, in a laboratory environ-
ment where all the necessary conditions are provided.
Even though the Miller experiment is still depicted as an
important scientific discovery in some Turkish publications, it
has effectively been abandoned by most evolutionary authori-

ties. In recent years, Western scientific journals have stated that,
in terms of accounting for the origins of life, the experiment is
meaningless. For instance, the following comment, appeared in
the February 1998 issue of the well-known evolutionist journal
Earth, under the title "Life's Crucible":
Geologists now think that the primordial atmosphere consist-
ed mainly of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, gases that are less
reactive than those used in the 1953 experiment. And even if
Miller's atmosphere could have existed, how do you get simple

molecules such as amino acids to go through the necessary
chemical changes that will convert them into more complicated
compounds, or polymers, such as proteins? Miller himself
throws up his hands at that part of the puzzle. "It's a problem,"

Reaction cell

Water is Methane,
added to the Vacuum ammonia, water
and
condenser.
hydrogen
gas

Water boils

The mechanisms Stanley Miller used in his experiment. Many conditions
that did not exist in real life, were used in Miller’s experiment. As a result,
science circles considered the experiment invalid.