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To: js1138
Also, I would like to see you create life from "scratch" using amino acids by FIRST creating the amino acids, etc.
No problem creating amino acids from scratch. Decades old technology available to high school kids.

How do you create Amino Acids from scratch??? (Bear in mind that when we say from "scratch" we mean from absolute nothing).

When you can prove to me (and re-duplicate it in a lab) that nothing explodes then we'll talk. Until then it is just a theory taken on faith whether you like those words or not.

25 posted on 12/11/2002 10:02:28 AM PST by LivingNet
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To: LivingNet
How do you create Amino Acids from scratch??? (Bear in mind that when we say from "scratch" we mean from absolute nothing).

You are no doubt anticipating this, regarding the Miller/Urey experiment:

He reproduced the early atmosphere of Earth that Urey proposed by creating a chamber with only hydrogen, water, methane, and ammonia. To speed up "geologic time" in his experiment, he boiled the water and instead of exposing the mix to ultraviolet light he used an electric discharge something like lightning. After just a week, Miller had a residue of compounds settled in his system. He analyzed them and the results were electrifying: Organic compounds had been formed, most notably some of the "building blocks of life," amino acids. Amino acids are necessary to form proteins which themselves form the structure of cells and play important roles in the biochemical reactions life requires. Miller found the amino acids glycine, alanine, aspartic and glutamic acid, and others. Fifteen percent of the carbon from the methane had been combined into organic compounds. As amazing as discovering amino acids at all was how easily they had formed.

43 posted on 12/11/2002 11:21:12 AM PST by js1138
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