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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: codes,designs,creation,intelligence
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 17:21:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 17:21:27 1985
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>    There may be danger in quoting the now famous Miller experiment as an
> example of abiogensis.  As I have been told, Miller's original intention
> may have been to demonstrate that organic compounds could be formed from
> inorganics.  At that time, most chemists felt that organic compounds could
> only be formed from other organic compounds or life processes.  Miller's
> experiment showed one way that organic compounds could be synthesized from
> a collection of simple inorganic compounds.  If synthesis is the objective,
> then the trap used to recover the organics makes sense.  The Miller experiment
> has subsequently been reinterpreted to indicate a possible environment for the
> early Earth.
> 
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.

> 
>                             Patrick Wyant
>                             AT&T Bell Laboratories (Naperville, IL)
>                             *!iham1!gjphw