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Miller's Experiment

Stanley Miller's aim was to demonstrate by means of an experiment
that amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, could have come into ex-
istence "by chance" on the lifeless earth billions of years ago.
In his experiment, Miller used a gas mixture that he assumed to have
existed on the primordial earth (but which later proved unrealistic) com-
posed of ammonia, methane, hydrogen, and water vapour. Since these
gasses would not react with each other under natural conditions, he added
energy to the mixture to start a reaction among them. Supposing that this
energy could have come from lightning in the primordial atmosphere, he
used an electric current for this purpose.
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Miller heated this gas mixture at 100 C for a week and added the elec-
trical current. At the end of the week, Miller analysed the chemicals which
had formed at the bottom of the jar, and observed that three out of the 20
amino acids, which constitute the basic elements of proteins had been syn-
thesised.
This experiment aroused great excitement among evolutionists, and
was promoted as an outstanding success. Moreover, in a state of intoxi-
cated euphoria, various publications carried headlines such as "Miller cre-
ates life". However, what Miller had managed to synthesise was only a few
"inanimate" molecules.
Encouraged by this experiment, evolutionists immediately produced
new scenarios. Stages following the development of amino acids were hur-
riedly hypothesised. Supposedly, amino acids had later united in the cor-
rect sequences by accident to form proteins. Some of these proteins which
emerged by chance formed themselves into cell membrane-like structures
which "somehow" came into existence and formed a primitive cell. The
cells then supposedly came together over time to form multicellular living
organisms. However, Miller's experiment was nothing but make-believe
and has since proven to be false in many aspects.

Miller's Experiment was Nothing but Make-believe

Miller's experiment sought to prove that amino acids could form on
their own in primordial earth-like conditions, but it contains inconsisten-
cies in a number of areas:
1. By using a mechanism called a "cold trap", Miller isolated the