(June 21, 2010 at 4:28 pm)YellerMetal Wrote:(April 30, 2010 at 11:43 am)AngelThMan Wrote: Abiogenesis discredited. 500 years of experiments have failed to produce life out of inanimate matter.
Wrong, I saw a documentary sometime ago stating clearly that scientists have managed to isolate amino acids which were produced completely spontaneously under certain cuircumstances, which include both heat and electricity as well as basic elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
The fact is that spontaneous formation of amino acids itself is not producing life out of inanimate matter (unless you have a really loose definition of the word "life", e.g. one where amino acids = life). It may very well be evidence that leads you to the conclusion that abiogenesis is possible but it does not necessitate such a conclusion (at least in my opinion) or establish that abiogenesis happens/happened.
