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Harun Yahya

J. B. S. Haldane
Alexander Oparin

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 proponents offering the "Miller experiment" as the

greatest proof for their theses. Many biology textbooks in many
countries tell students how important this experiment was, and how
it cast light on the problem of the origins of life. Most often, the de-
tails of the experiment are disregarded. What it produced and to

what extent the experiment "casts light" on the origins of life are
also ignored.
To shed some light on this experiment, let us sum up the rele-
vant facts that we have detailed in another 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 primordial Earth.

Afterwards, he exposed this mixture to an electrical dis-
charge for more than a week and, as a result, observed that
some amino acids that are used in living things were syn-
thesized, along with others that are not. Stanley Miller

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 produced 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 evolu-
tionists. 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 pri-

mordial 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 CO2 are not suitable for the formation of amino acids. A 1998 article in the
geological magazine Earth, summed up the matter:

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