Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: codes,designs,creation,intelligence Message-ID: <433@kontron.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 17:21:27 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.433 Posted: Thu Aug 1 17:21:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:09:24 EDT References: <32500041@uiucdcsb> <43@uw-june> <418@iham1.UUCP> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 23 > 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