| First off: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EVOLUTION.
Second:
The miller experiment showed how the formation of organic compounds could come from the original conditions of the earth billions of years ago.
The data is fine. It is a probable cause of the origin of life. There are lots of other theories on the subject with just as much evidence. With the origin of life we can only speculate at this point and come up with models to reproduce the conditions. But this is a process that took millions of years.
Picture a H2S environment rather than a water environment constantly bombarding the surface with radiation. Anything could happen. The odds of us getting it right at this point are pretty slim. Too many possibilities. But this is the best one in my mind. The experiments since then have taken it many steps farther. The formation of DNA without proteins, proteins folding without chaperones, all done by simple Mg. It is all possible and it is pretty odd that these things all lead to the formation of life as we know it but that is also what those chemists are looking for. It is inductive science since we have the result and are looking for evidence supporting it. I am not saying all chemists are doing this. There are ones that are looking at systems of other reproducing systems that are not DNA/protein based but they are not really applied to the development of life since as far as we know, those probable systems did not work.
My second favorite is the idea of spores on meteors landing in our environment and spouting life from that. Just as much evidence for that one.
Last edited by MarkedAchilles; 03-05-2006 at 05:04 PM.
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