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Re: Atheism (was: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution)
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Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:48:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
  Of particular importance is the fact that the experiments produced 13 of the
20 amino acids used in life[1], and in a relatively short amount of time.
Remember that the primitive Earth had billions of years to accomplish what
Miller sought to do in the space of a researcher's career!  Give the researchers
a billion years and a whole world's worth of materials and then see what they
come up with.

However, you have to consider the fact that the experiments were performed
already knowing such compounds existed, whereas the billions of years of
evolution probably had no such knowledge.

ROSCO



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  Re: Atheism (was: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution)
 
(...) Hello Jojo: By all means, feel free to chime in. That's what the forum is for! Regarding the thunderbolt & amino acids, you're referring to Miller's experiments in the 1950's. These experiments revealed much that was promising, though they (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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