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Using extremely sensitive mass spectrometers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Cleaves, Bada, and colleagues found traces of 22 amino acids in the experimental residues. That is about double the number originally reported by Miller and Urey and includes all of the 20 amino acids found in living things, the scientists report tomorrow in Science.

Found traces??? Does that mean they found the actual animo acids or did they find tracks that could have the potential to lead to these animo acids???

So it appears that whoever put animo acids in living things also put animo acids in non living things...

I wish these guys would move a little faster on the research tho...I'm really curious as to how and why my eyes were made...And what showed up first, my eyes or my brain...And my eyelids...How many billions of years did we have eyes but no eyelids to open to see thru them???

And what about eating??? When did the first little bug get a mouth??? And figure out it's good to eat other little bugs...

And I'm curious about mountain goats...Did they keep falling off mountains for a couple of billions of years til their little feet adapted to where they could climb the rocks???

In my view, discovering animo acids in non living things isn't all that big a deal...Now when they figure out what animo acids evolved from, that might be newsworthy...

Here's the other side of the issue...

Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Joh 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Ecc 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Ecc 8:17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Psa 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

"Found traces??? Does that mean they found the actual animo acids or did they find tracks that could have the potential to lead to these animo acids???"

The statement means that they found all the actual amino acids, but the the ones NOT reported in the original paper were present at levels below the detection limits of the techniques used in that paper.

"So it appears that whoever put animo acids in living things also put animo acids in non living things..."

No. What it means is that all those amino acids were formed in the original electrical discharge experiment. There WERE no amino acids present in the starting materials---that's the whole point.