Scientists make homebrew "primoridal soup"

[Burning_Inside]

"Could life have emerged from the conditions on early Earth without divine intervention? In 1953 chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey of the University of Chicago filled a glass bulb with hydrogen, methane, ammonia and water to simulate the early atmosphere, then heated it with a Bunsen burner "sun" and battered it with electric "lightning bolts." After a few weeks, the bulb held a reddish-brown soup containing amino acids -- the key building blocks of life. Scientists now believe ammonia may not have been present in the Earth's early atmosphere, but updated studies conducted sans ammonia have yielded similar results. "

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12543,572388-4,00.html

 

[milo hobgoblin]

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dont worry ... all the religious zealots will shoot it down and say god reached down and created those amino acids.


During college someone repeated this same experiment and some fuckhead christians came in and destroyed it.

 

[Deus Ex Machina]

Miller's Experiment. Learned about that stuff a while back...pretty interesting.

Gracias for that link.

 

[c-sharp minor]

Thanks for the link.

Interesting.

 

[argent]

goo shit

 

[samoth]

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During college someone repeated this same experiment and some fuckhead christians came in and destroyed it.

 

[rjl296]

that study is 50 yrs old bro

 

[chewyxrage]

Yea but I had never seen it.


thanks for the link.

 

[biteme]

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dont worry ... all the religious zealots will shoot it down and say god reached down and created those amino acids.


During college someone repeated this same experiment and some fuckhead christians came in and destroyed it.

There is but 1 truth. Many claim to know what it is, being wise in their own eyes.

 

[rushx79]

if things like this interest you, you should read "a short history of nearly everything" by bryson. its all science related but very reader friendly.

 

[strider364]

goo shit

Hey Arg, what excatly is "goo shit"?

 

[Silent Method]

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dont worry ... all the religious zealots will shoot it down and say god reached down and created those amino acids.

I pity those of you who cannot fathom the infinite simplicity of God’s relation to science.


Assuming that God did create the physical world, would God then not be responsible for the laws of science that govern it?

If the physical origin of the biological organism does stem from a simple chemical soup and energy, a concoction the likes of which man can simulate in a lab, why would an OMNIPOTENT BEING be incapable of conceiving physical life through that medium? Assuming God the as creator, is that "primordial soup," and all the laws of physics and nature that guide it, not an extension of the natural world created BY that omnipotent being?

IF God is the creator, AND science is responsible, THEN God is responsible.


Why do you attribute a Harry Potter magic wand rationalization to the idea of God – especially in light of creation? No doubt, this erroneous view of “God” as an outside force, standing at bay until he decides to stick his hand into things, is shared by far too many believers. In turn, far too many non-believers are left chasing their tails arguing a fools argument.

 

[milo hobgoblin]

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actually silent method... that IS pretty close to my philosophy as it pertains to the creation of life.

I just dont beleive that God waved hos magic wand and plants and animals appeared out of nowhere.


I think a universe was created the would eventually fosetr the development of life... through natural means.

 

[Silent Method]

Milo, good enough for me. My questioning was really directed as much to those who believe in God as to those who do not.