Page 49 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

mordial Earth. Afterwards, he exposed this mix-
ture to an electrical discharge for more than a week and,
as a result, observed that some amino acids that are used in
living things were synthesized, along with others that are not.

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which in turn
are the basic material of the body. Hundreds of amino acids join in
a particular series within a cell to produce proteins. Cells are pro-
duced from a few thousand different kinds of proteins. In other
words, amino acids are the smallest components of any living
thing.
For this reason, Stanley Miller's synthesizing of amino acids
caused great excitement among evolutionists. And so the legend of
the "Miller Experiment" was born and was to last for decades.

However, it slowly emerged that the experiment was invalid.
In the 1970s it was proved that the primordial Earth's atmosphere
was mainly composed of nitrogen and carbon dioxide and did not
contain the methane and ammonia gasses that Miller used in his
experiment. This showed that Miller's scenario was untenable,
since N and CO are not suitable for the formation of amino acids.
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A 1998 article in the geological magazine Earth, summed up the
matter:
Today Miller's scenario is regarded with misgivings. One reason is
that geologists now think that the primordial atmosphere consisted
mainly of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, gases that are less reactive
than those used in the 1953 experiment. 8
That same year, National Geographic, another well-

known scientific magazine, wrote as follows:
Many scientists now suspect that the early atmosphere

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