Miller–Urey experiment

We basically no longer have to rely on the localized planetary model for the origin of life's building blocks.

Because for decades, the dominant theory was based on concepts like the famous Miller-Urey experiment, right?

Right.

The assumption was that the early Earth was a barren rock, and it had to painstakingly manufacture all of these complex organics from scratch.

That's fascinating.

It actually connects back to the Miller-Urey experiment, which showed life can emerge from matter itself.

But here's where it gets really interesting.

Kukushkin draws a distinction between memory as metaphor and memory as mechanism.

Like a random lightning strike or ultraviolet rays from the sun.

Oh, wait, this sounds like the famous 1953 Miller-Urey experiment.

Yes, exactly.

Where they put early earth gases into a sealed container, added some water, simulated lightning with electrical sparks, and basically just waited to see what would happen.

I referenced Dr. James Tour of Rice University.

I remember a conversation with him a number of years ago, which led to my writing my book, Is Atheism Dead? But when he was explaining to me that, you know, in 1951, 52, Miller Urey did their experiment at the University of Chicago, and they produced amino acids.

Yes.

It's very similar to the Human Genome Project.

That would be God.

Well, I mean, we've actually, like, figured out an explanation for, you know, the emergence of life, you know, the Urey-Miller experiments and stuff where they've actually created amino acids-

Mm

... you know, from-

We've manipulated and justed, adjusted, but nobody's created something out of nothing.

Nobody.

Not Urey-Miller.

Nobody.

Okay, you know, just 'cause you find an amino acid, we're actually finding, they're even admitting that, you know, amino acids, they just spontaneously form from inorganic chemicals.

You know, in the Miller-Urey experiment we'll talk about a little bit.

Well, if you put hydrogen and ammonia and CO2 and water together and you put a spark in there, well, you'll get, uh, you'll get amino acids, so it's no big deal.

It's kinda like saying if, uh, the simple experiment, you know, if hopefully you got to do this in high school, uh, where you have the, the flask that you fill with hydrogen, the flask that you fill with oxygen.

So it affects the physical structure.

Always have to be left-handed.

And so with the Miller-Urey experiment, and my, my wife's teaching biology this fall, and, and they still haven't taken it out of the textbooks.

You know? But so it's still in there, and it's grossly oversold and everything else.

They'll take data points, but they will twist it into lies.

The classic example we all grew up on, do you remember the 1952 Miller-Urey experiment? This was the primordial soup where they sparked it and made some amino acids.

Remember all this?

Mm-hmm.