Miller-Urey experiment – Uncommon Descent

Why the Miller-Urey experiment was so important to many high school science teachers

Neil Thomas: Without an “abiogenetic moment” Darwin’s entire theory of evolution via natural selection falls flat.

What the Miller-Urey experiment got wrong

Miller and Urey produced simple amino acids but then nothing happened. Apparently, the containers you use to try to make life in a test tube matter. When life got started, they always used Teflon.

chuckdarwin Belfast/58 The qualitative difference, then, between an Abrahamic God, and a universal intelligence, or spirit, or force which runs the... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
AnimatedDust Jerry @ 65: Well said. Either we conform our desires to the truth, or we conform the truth to our... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 @58 Thanks, that is a helpful exegesis of Spinoza's position. I would add a few further points, hopefully this clarifies... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
jerry But demanding that scientists prove the unguided OoL by producing life in a lab certainly speaks volumes about the reasoning... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes StephenB Ori: Ted is made by God, so, Ted is a secondary cause. God is the necessary/sufficient cause of the... – Aquinas, Ockham, and Descartes about God....
kairosfocus Origenes, PM1 is trying to put a wall of partition between convictions, intuition, reasoning and arguing. This may well reflect... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PPS, well do I remember the advice that when one gets truly stuck on a geometry problem, take a break,... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes KF ~ Charles Darwin & self-referential incoherence. On the other hand, if we consider the whole universe, the mind refuses... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, he is tracing the imagined discredit of mind and its convictions to ancestry as he imagines. Notice, he does... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus F/N: I should add from Marx, Communist Manifesto, Ch 2: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm But don’t wrangle with us so long as you... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
jerry It’s interesting the extent to which people will make up gobbledygook in order to justify being against something. The universe... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
PyrrhoManiac1 In re: 251 and 253, I really do think you are badly misreading what Darwin is actually saying. He is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Origenes DogDoc @56 I think it might help for you to reconsider each of these questions, but instead of asking how... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
bornagain77 Belfast at 58 and 60. Thanks. – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...
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bornagain77 So again, and mathematically speaking, the main problem unifying Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity is that there is apparently an... – Has string theory really fallen this...
bornagain77 The first paragraph of the article states, "String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the... – Has string theory really fallen this...
kairosfocus PM1, I think I should add some remarks. First, the letter, which is not easy to find as there is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus Origenes [attn FP, JVL & Sandy]: it is manifest that if chemistry was valid 3 - 5 BYA, it is... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
kairosfocus PM1, precisely. CRD was playing logic with a swivel, when it is massively evident that Math is as abstract, abstruse... – L&FP, 64: The challenge of self-referentiality...
Querius Belfast @60, One who “accepts” Spinoza’s God need not worry about origin of the universe – the universe IS God,... – Harvard Astronomer: The wonders of the...