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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."
And they mean it in every imaginable way !!
> If human life on Earth is the desired result, an almighty, all-knowing transcendental God would not use evolution as the means.
I love it when people think they know more than God.
> Nor would it sculpt them out of clay after seven days of puttering around. We're talking almighty here, why wait?
You are correct -- but you have fallen for the red herring of literalism. Try reading the _2_ Genesis accounts -- there are numerous contradiction _intentionally_ placed in them to emphasize they are NOT meant to be literal. Only spiritually stupid fundamentalists do that.
> if one believes in the God-as-first-cause thing, it follows that either 1. God is not almighty, or 2. Human life on Earth is not the desired result, or at least not the sole desired result.
You are blinded by a false dichotomy. The 2 statements are not contradictory.
> (you can conduct no HUMAN experiment to show the existence of such a God)
FTFY. 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.