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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
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Subject: Re: Re: codes,designs,creation,intelligence
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 16:07:20 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 10 16:07:20 1985
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Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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> Wrong.  Chemists had established that "...organic compounds could only
> be formed from other organic compounds or life processes." was incorrect
> in the early 1800s when urea was successfully synthesized with non-organic
> compounds.
> 
> If this the level of knowledge that you are arguing from, I can't take
> any of your other arguments seriously.

	The purpose of the Urey-Miller experiment was to ascertain if any
AMINO ACIDS could be synthesized UNDER THE NATURAL CONDITIONS present on the
earth during its formative period.  It was already well known that organic
compounds (including amino acids) could be synthesized from compounds that
were purely inorganic; the issue here was natural conditions (this sort of
precludes such things as synthesis in a 5,000 psi catalytic hydrogenator...).

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