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Miller's Experiment
Miller with his experiment
apparatus |
Evolutionists often quote Miller's
Experiment as evidence of the correctness of their
claim that life formed by chance in primordial
earth conditions. However, the experiment, which
was carried out some 50 years ago, has lost its
scientific implication due to the discoveries
that followed.
|  PRIMORDIAL
ATMOSPHERE MISCONCEPTION
Miller claimed that he strictly reproduced
the primordial atmosphere conditions in
his experiment. However, the gases Miller
used in his experiment were not even remotely
comparable to the real primordial earth
conditions. Moreover, Miller had interfered
in the experiment with purposeful mechanisms.
In fact, with this experiment, he himself
refuted the evolutionist claims that amino
acids could have formed spontaneously in
natural conditions. |
American chemist Stanley Miller
conducted an experiment in 1953 to support the
scenario of molecular evolution. Miller assumed
that the primordial earth atmosphere was composed
of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen gases. He combined
these gases in an experiment set-up and gave electricity
to the mixture. Almost a week later, he observed
that some amino acids formed in this mixture.
This discovery aroused great
excitement among evolutionists. In the next twenty
years, some evolutionists, such as Sydney Fox
and Cyril Ponnamperuma, attempted to develop Miller's
scenario.
 FOX'S
UNSUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT
Inspired by Miller's scenario, evolutionists
conducted different experiments in the
years that followed. Sydney Fox produced
the molecules seen in the picture, "proteinoids"
as he called them, by combining some amino
acids. These useless amino acid chains
had nothing to do with real proteins that
constitute the bodies of living things.
Actually, all these efforts not only showed
that life did not come about by coincidence,
but also that it could not be reproduced
in laboratory conditions.
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The discoveries made in the
1970's repudiated these evolutionist attempts
known as "primordial atmosphere experiments".
It was revealed that the "methane-ammonia
based primordial atmosphere model" Miller
proposed and other evolutionists accepted was
absolutely fallacious. Miller chose these gases
on purpose, because they were very convenient
for the formation of amino acids. Scientific discoveries,
on the other hand, showed that the primordial
atmosphere was composed of nitrogen, carbon dioxide
and water vapour.14
This atmosphere model was by no means suitable
for the formation of amino acids. Moreover, it
was understood that a great amount of oxygen naturally
occurred in the primordial atmosphere.15
This, too, invalidated the scenario of the evolutionists,
because free oxygen would obviously decompose
amino acids.
 
MILLER'S CONFESSION
Today, Miller
too accepts that his 1953 experiment was
very far from explaining the origin of
life
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As a result of these discoveries,
the scientific community acknowledged in the 1980's
that Miller's Experiment and other "primordial
atmosphere experiments" that followed it
have no meaning at all. After a long silence,
Miller also confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic.16
What's more, this whole fuss
was simply about "amino acid formation".
Even if amino acids had formed, it is impossible
for these simple organic molecules to give rise
to extremely complex structures such as proteins
by chance and produce a living cell which even
mankind is unable to reproduce in laboratories
today.
The fifty years that have passed
since Miller's time have only served to further
display the despair the theory of evolution faces
at the molecular level.
| MILLER'S
ASSUMPTIONS |
REAL
CONDITIONS |
WHY
IS THE EXPERIMENT INVALID? |
| He
used methane, ammonia, and water vapour
in the experiment. |
Primitive
earth contained carbon dioxide and nitrogen
instead of methane and ammonia. |
Ferris
and Chen from the USA repeated the experiment
with the gases that existed at that time.
Not even one amino acid was obtained. |
| He
assumed oxygen to be non-existent in the
primitive atmosphere. |
Findings
show that there was a huge amount of free
oxygen in the primitive atmosphere. |
With
such an amount of free oxygen available,
the amino acids would have broken down,
even if they could have been formed. |
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was a special mechanism set up to synthesize
the amino acids in the experiment. This
mechanism, called the "Cold Trap", isolated
the amino acids from the environment as
soon as they were formed and preserved them. |
It
was impossible for these kinds of mechanisms
to have existed in nature. Under natural
conditions, amino acids are exposed to all
kinds of external destructive factors. |
If
the mechanism known as the "Cold Trap" had
not existed, the spark source and other
chemicals released during the experiment
would have destroyed the amino acids. |
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