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Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life
sciencehabit writes "In the 1950s, scientist Stanley Miller conducted a series of experiments in which he zapped gas-filled flasks with electricity. The most famous of these, published in 1952, showed that such a process could give rise to amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. But a later experiment, conducted in 1958, sat on the shelf--never analyzed by Miller. Now, scientists have gone back and analyzed the sludge at the bottom of this flask and found even more amino acids than before--and better evidence that lightning and volcanic gasses may have helped create life on Earth."
I love it when people think they know more than God.
It's not hard to know more than something that doesn't exist.
I'm really sick of you religious people, every one of you. You people believe in something without any evidence (no, a work of fiction is not evidence) and then create legislation forcing everyone to, for instance, give your beliefs credence in schools or regulate consensual behavior. Of course, you present unfalsifiable claims, so every time a scientist explains something you attribute to God, all you have to do is say "well, God caused that process to happen". It's fucking lunacy, and every one of you is mentally ill. It is amazing that a society this scientifically advanced is still so superstitious and delusional.
I know most of my fellow atheists are polite about it and discreetly dodge religious topics. In fact, in person, I do, too; after all, I don't usually want to start an unnecessary argument (though I couldn't resist this time). But you all need to realize that when you talk about God, we're thinking about what an idiot you are. We smile and nod, but don't think for a second that we're agreeing. Superiority? You bet, we're superior. We're not shackled by the chains of religion. We do what we think is right, without consulting a rulebook. I'm not going to start accusing religion for all the evils in the world like some do, because people also do good deeds in the name of religion. Why are people doing these things in the name of superstition, though? Why obfuscate the real motivation? I don't claim to know the motivations for people's actions, but if the motivation is God, you're doing it for the wrong reason.
After you are dead you will have all the proof you need. i.e. Consciousness is not bound by human perspective/terms of life & death.
No, you idiot. Once I'm dead, I'm dead. Game over. Finito. I won't know I'm dead because I'll be dead. It is idiotic to believe anything else; there's no evidence for any kind of afterlife. You might not be comfortable with the idea of death being the end, but it doesn't make it any less the case.