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Once Upon a Time
There Was Darwinism

Once, There Was Miller's

Experiment

If you were to look at today's evolutionist literature dealing
with the origins of life, you would likely see evolution's propo-
nents offering the "Miller experiment" as the greatest proof for
their theses. Many biology textbooks in many countries tell stu-
dents how important this experiment was, and how it cast light on
the problem of the origins of life. Most often, the details of the ex-

periment are disregarded. What it produced and to what extent the
experiment "casts light" on the ori-
gins of life are also ignored.
To shed some light on this ex-
periment, let us sum up the relevant
facts that we have detailed in an-
other book. In 1953, Stanley Miller,
a graduate student in the
Department of Chemistry at the
University of Chicago under the
supervision of his teacher,

Harold Urey, composed a
mixture of gasses that, he
supposed, resembled the
atmosphere of the pri-

Stanley Miller

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