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Lat est Ev o lu tion ist Sour ces Dis pute Mil ler's Ex per i ment

oday, Miller's experiment is to- That's bad news for chemists.
tally disregarded even by evo- When they try sparking carbon
T lutionist scientists. In the dioxide and nitrogen, they get a
February 1998 issue of the famous paltry amount of organic mole-
evolutionist science journal Earth, the cules - the equivalent of dis-
following statements appear in an ar- solving a drop of food colouring in
ticle titled "Life's Crucible": a swimming pool of water. Scien-
Geologist now think that the pri- tists find it hard to imagine life
mordial atmosphere consisted emerging from such a diluted
mainly of carbon dioxide and ni- soup. 2
trogen, gases that are less reac- In brief, neither Miller's experi-
tive than those used in the 1953 ment, nor any other similar one that
experiment. And even if Miller's at- has been attempted, can answer the
mosphere could have existed, how question of how life emerged on
do you get simple molecules such earth. All of the research that has
as amino acids to go through the been done shows that it is impossible
necessary chemical changes that for life to emerge by chance, and thus
will convert them into more com- confirms that life is created.
plicated compounds, or polymers,
such as proteins? Miller himself
throws up his hands at that part of
the puzzle. "It's a problem," he
sighs with exasperation. "How do
you make polymers? That's not so
easy." 1
As seen, today even Miller himself
has accepted that his experiment
does not lead to an explanation of the
origin of life. The fact that evolutionist
scientists embraced this experiment
so fervently only indicates the diffi-
culties facing evolution, and the des-
peration of its advocates.
In the March 1998 issue of Na-
tional Geographic, in an article titled
"The Emergence of Life on Earth", the
following comments appear:
Many scientists now suspect that
the early atmosphere was different
from what Miller first supposed. 1- Earth, "Life's Crucible", February 1998, p.34
2- National Geographic, "The Rise of Life on
They think it consisted of carbon
Earth", March 1998, p.68
dioxide and nitrogen rather than
hydrogen, methane, and ammonia.