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Today, Miller too accepts that his 1953 experiment was
very far from explaining the origin of life.

of amino acids because of oxidation, is only one of
these destructive elements. Even under such ideal
laboratory conditions, it was impossible for the

amino acids produced to survive and avoid destruc-
tion without the "cold trap" mechanism.
In fact, by his experiment, Miller destroyed evo-
lution's claim that "life emerged as the result of un-
conscious coincidences." That is because, if the

experiment proves anything, it is that amino acids
can only be produced in a controlled laboratory environment where all the conditions are specifically designed
by conscious intervention.
Today, Miller's experiment is totally disregarded even by evolutionist scientists. In the February 1998 issue
of the famous evolutionist science journal Earth, the following statements appear in an article titled "Life's
Crucible":

Geologist 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. And even if Miller's atmosphere could have existed, how do
you get simple molecules such as amino acids to go through the necessary chemical changes that will convert them
into more complicated 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." 223

As seen, today even Miller himself has accepted that his experiment does not lead to an explanation of the
origin of life. In the March 1998 issue of National 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 to what Miller first supposed. They
think it consisted of carbon dioxide and nitrogen rather than hydrogen, methane, and ammonia.

That's bad news for chemists. When they try sparking carbon dioxide and nitrogen, they get a paltry amount of or-
ganic molecules - the equivalent of dissolving a drop of food colouring in a swimming pool of water. Scientists find
it hard to imagine life emerging from such a diluted soup. 224

In brief, neither Miller's experiment, nor any other similar one that has been attempted, can answer the
question of how life emerged on earth. All of the research that has been done shows that it is impossible for life
to emerge by chance, and thus confirms that life is created. The reason evolutionists do not accept this obvious

reality is their blind adherence to prejudices that are totally unscientific. Interestingly enough, Harold Urey,
who organized the Miller experiment with his student Stanley Miller, made the following confession on this
subject:

All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex to have
evolved anywhere. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet. It is just that
its complexity is so great, it is hard for us to imagine that it did. 225

The Primordial Atmosphere and Proteins

Evolutionist sources use the Miller experiment, despite all of its inconsistencies, to try to gloss over the
question of the origin of amino acids. By giving the impression that the issue has long since been resolved by
that invalid experiment, they try to paper over the cracks in the theory of evolution.

However, to explain the second stage of the origin of life, evolutionists faced an even greater problem than

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