Can life come into existence by itself?
What are your thoughts on the Miller experiment?
What are the proofs refuting the possibility that life came into existence by itself?
And in fact, many of the experiments that people will cite in favor of chemical evolution
or abiogenesis like the Miller-Urey experiment turn out to be invalid experiments.
So when Miller did his famous experiment in the 1950s, his spark discharge experiment where
presumably he was able to make amino acids in the laboratory under conditions that would
simulate the early earth, it turns out that Miller's conditions were not the conditions
we now know that the early earth was like.
And when we try to use those conditions in the Miller-Urey experiment, nothing happens
whatsoever.
So it's an invalid experiment in terms of justifying the origin of life.
But one of the things that's interesting is that the problems that we see with the Miller-Urey
experiment actually point us to a creator's role.
Because origin of life researchers are very good at going in the lab and identifying chemical
processes that, let's say, might make amino acids or nucleobases or sugars.
But what we note is that in the laboratory, those experiments have to be done under highly controlled
conditions where the researcher is playing a vital role in the success of that experiment.
And what that means is that that chemistry isn't going to happen on the early earth unless there's
an intelligent agent that is somehow orchestrating those reactions.
So the irony is that the experiments designed to defend chemical evolution actually, when we
interpret them properly, provide some of the most compelling evidence that a creator had
to play a role in the origin of life.