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interesting theory: that after the first amino acids had formed in
the primordial ocean, they must have immediately been cast up
onto cliffs near a volcano. The high temperatures on those rocks
must have evaporated the water containing amino acids. In this
way, the "dried" amino acids could have combined to form pro-

teins.
However, this sophistry convinced no one, because amino
acids do not exhibit heat resistance to the extent proposed by
Fox. Research has revealed that, at high temperatures, amino
acids are rapidly destroyed.
However, Fox did not give up. Under "very special condi-

tions in the laboratory," he combined purified amino acids by
heating them in a dry environment. The amino acids did com-
bine, but Fox still failed to obtain proteins, only randomly con-
nected, simple and irregular amino acid links—a far cry from

the proteins in any living thing. Furthermore, had Fox main-
tained the amino acids at that same temperature, then the use-
less links that did emerge would have been broken. 120
Another point depriving the experiment of any signifi-
cance is that rather than the amino acids obtained in the Miller
experiment, Fox used the pure amino acids found in living or-

ganisms. Since he claimed his experiment was a continuation of
Miller's, he should have started off from where Miller left off.
Yet, neither Fox nor any other researcher used the useless
amino acids that Miller produced. 121
Fox's experiment received no welcome from Darwinists

because it was plain that the meaningless chains of amino acids
(or proteinoids) that Fox obtained could never have emerged
under natural conditions. In addition, he had still not obtained
the proteins that constitute the building blocks of living things,
so the problem of the origin of proteins had still not been re-