RE: Argument #1: Transitional Fossils
April 22, 2014 at 8:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2014 at 8:09 pm by Cyberman.)
(April 22, 2014 at 7:51 pm)Chuck Wrote: Unfortunately subsequent geological discoveries strongly indicates the conditions on earth 4 billion years ago was different in critical ways from the condition simulated in miller Urey experiment.
Also miller Urey experiment didn't show all critical steps would occur spontaneously.
So miller Urey experiment showed hurtles for abiogenesis is not as great as previously imagined under certain conditions. But it didn't add much to understanding of how abiogenesis might have actually happened on earth.
The main point about the M/U experiment is that it didn't need to show how life arose under conditions on the primordial Earth (assumptions about which are now known to be wrong). The fact that amino acids were produced at all under any conditions is all that is required to burst the god bubble.
(I know that sentence is badly constructed but I can't for the life of me see where. That's what I get for posting with a half asleep brain.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'