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Can life come into existence by itself?

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What are your thoughts on the Miller experiment?

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What are the proofs refuting the possibility that life came into existence by itself?

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And in fact, many of the experiments that people will cite in favor of chemical evolution

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or abiogenesis like the Miller-Urey experiment turn out to be invalid experiments.

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So when Miller did his famous experiment in the 1950s, his spark discharge experiment where

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presumably he was able to make amino acids in the laboratory under conditions that would

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simulate the early earth, it turns out that Miller's conditions were not the conditions

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we now know that the early earth was like.

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And when we try to use those conditions in the Miller-Urey experiment, nothing happens

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whatsoever.

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So it's an invalid experiment in terms of justifying the origin of life.

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But one of the things that's interesting is that the problems that we see with the Miller-Urey

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experiment actually point us to a creator's role.

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Because origin of life researchers are very good at going in the lab and identifying chemical

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processes that, let's say, might make amino acids or nucleobases or sugars.

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But what we note is that in the laboratory, those experiments have to be done under highly controlled

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conditions where the researcher is playing a vital role in the success of that experiment.

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And what that means is that that chemistry isn't going to happen on the early earth unless there's

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an intelligent agent that is somehow orchestrating those reactions.

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So the irony is that the experiments designed to defend chemical evolution actually, when we

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interpret them properly, provide some of the most compelling evidence that a creator had

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to play a role in the origin of life.