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Primordial Soup: Interview with Stanley Miller

Posted by michael on from the just-add-boullion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Stanley Miller's classic 'primordial soup' experiments showed that 13 of the 21 amino acids necessary for life could be made in a glass flask. For its fifty-year commemoration, Miller is interviewed today and reflects on what Carl Sagan called 'the single most significant step in convincing many scientists that life is likely to be abundant in the cosmos.'"

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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    57 out of 60 STDs commonly found in the homosexual community can also be found in CmdrTaco's mouth.

  2. Re:Land Sharks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    I am in a dispute with your mother over intellectual property and the tadpole soup I left in her mouth.

  3. Wait a minute by 2names · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You are bright enough to conduct an experiment such as this, yet you couldn't figure out a way to generate a fucking spark? Do the world a favor and don't reproduce, ok?

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    "I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
  4. Re:Carl Sagan was missing Billions and Billions of by sstory · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you're going to scream-capitalize words, at least spell them correctly, creationist.

  5. moderation by sstory · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There really needs to be a -5 Creationist moderation selection.

  6. Essentials of the argument by young-earth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You argue that time did wonders, I argue that the LORD God did.

    So this distills down to: you (and evolutionists in general) believe life was created by your god, which is time. I (and young-earth Bible Believers in general) believe in the LORD God who created your god (time) and space and matter and physical laws and life.

    As Dave Moore puts it: "I'd rather believe in a big God and have small problems that believe in a small god and have big problems".

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    Got Wisdom?