1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,120
Can life come into existence by itself?

2
00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:15,200
What are your thoughts on the Miller experiment?

3
00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:21,800
What are the proofs refuting the possibility that life came into existence by itself?

4
00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:28,920
And in fact, many of the experiments that people will cite in favor of chemical evolution

5
00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:35,180
or abiogenesis like the Miller-Urey experiment turn out to be invalid experiments.

6
00:00:35,180 --> 00:00:41,380
So when Miller did his famous experiment in the 1950s, his spark discharge experiment where

7
00:00:41,380 --> 00:00:46,640
presumably he was able to make amino acids in the laboratory under conditions that would

8
00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:51,780
simulate the early earth, it turns out that Miller's conditions were not the conditions

9
00:00:51,780 --> 00:00:55,560
we now know that the early earth was like.

10
00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,940
And when we try to use those conditions in the Miller-Urey experiment, nothing happens

11
00:00:59,940 --> 00:01:01,320
whatsoever.

12
00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:07,040
So it's an invalid experiment in terms of justifying the origin of life.

13
00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,340
But one of the things that's interesting is that the problems that we see with the Miller-Urey

14
00:01:12,340 --> 00:01:17,660
experiment actually point us to a creator's role.

15
00:01:17,660 --> 00:01:23,080
Because origin of life researchers are very good at going in the lab and identifying chemical

16
00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:29,020
processes that, let's say, might make amino acids or nucleobases or sugars.

17
00:01:29,020 --> 00:01:36,500
But what we note is that in the laboratory, those experiments have to be done under highly controlled

18
00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:43,120
conditions where the researcher is playing a vital role in the success of that experiment.

19
00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:49,360
And what that means is that that chemistry isn't going to happen on the early earth unless there's

20
00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:54,940
an intelligent agent that is somehow orchestrating those reactions.

21
00:01:54,940 --> 00:02:01,240
So the irony is that the experiments designed to defend chemical evolution actually, when we

22
00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:06,680
interpret them properly, provide some of the most compelling evidence that a creator had

23
00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:08,920
to play a role in the origin of life.