Primordial Soup: Interview with Stanley Miller

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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Re:I tried this experiment in high school...sort o

[fzammett]

Sort of off-topic, but then again, sort of on...

I remember a philosophy class I took my first year of college... The final exam was the professor putting a chair in the middle of the room and then telling us "write in no less than 1,500 words why the chair exists".

Well, I sat there for about an hour not being able to come up with anything reasonable to put down. So, finally I gave up...

I wrote on the paper: "What chair?!?" and handed that in.

I got an A+.

Re:I love this experiment

[Tyreth]

I tire of these conversations. If you want to get serious and look at these questions in depth from a creationist perspective, then my e-mail address is tunip at tyreth.homelinux.org.

If you want to try and tell us things we know aren't true (such as creationism not having had a single valid prediction), then don't bother. I've had altogether too many evolutionists who think they understand our position (their summary is "an appeal to magic/omnipotent creator to explain apparent contradictions") but are not interested in discovering if what they believe is true or not.