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amino acids from the environment as soon as they were formed. Had he
not done so, the conditions in the environment in which the amino acids
were formed would immediately have destroyed these molecules.
Doubtless, this kind of a conscious mechanism of isolation did not
exist on the primordial earth. Without such a mechanism, even if one
amino acid were obtained, it would immediately have been destroyed.
The chemist Richard Bliss expresses this contradiction by observing that
"Actually, without this trap, the chemical products would have been de-
stroyed by the energy source." 114
And, sure enough, in his previous experiments, Miller had been un-
able to make even one single amino acid using the same materials without
the cold trap mechanism.
2. The primordial atmospheric environment that Miller attempted
to simulate in his experiment was not realistic. In the 1980s, scientists
agreed that nitrogen and carbon dioxide should have been used in this ar-
tificial environment instead of methane and ammonia. After a long period
of silence, Miller himself also confessed that the atmospheric environment
he used in his experiment was not realistic. 119
So why did Miller insist on these gasses? The answer is clear: without
ammonia, it was impossible to synthesise any amino acid. Kevin Mc Kean
talks about this in an article published in Discover magazine:
Miller and Urey imitated the ancient atmosphere on the Earth with a mixture
of methane and ammonia. According to them, the Earth was a true homoge-
neous mixture of metal, rock and ice. However in the latest studies, it has
been understood that the Earth was very hot at those times, and that it was
composed of melted nickel and iron. Therefore, the chemical atmosphere of
that time should have been formed mostly of nitrogen (N ), carbon dioxide
2
(CO ) and water vapour (H O). However these are not as appropriate as
2
2
methane and ammonia for the production of organic molecules. 118
The American scientists J.P. Ferris and C.T. Chen repeated Miller's ex-
periment with an atmospheric environment that contained carbon dioxide,
hydrogen, nitrogen, and water vapour, and were unable to obtain even a
single amino acid molecule. 119
3. Another important point that invalidates Miller's experiment is that
there was enough oxygen to destroy all the amino acids in the atmos-
phere at the time when they were thought to have been formed. This fact,
overlooked by Miller, is revealed by the traces of oxidised iron and ura-