The Theory Of Evolution
has been a hot topic for over a century. Since Charles Darwin released his book, The Origin of Species, many scientists have been trying to find conclusive evidence to prove evolution as fact, rather then theory. For many people, evolution is a satisfactory answer to how we got here. But many others feel discontented with that theory, and find that evolution is not feasible. Although accepted by much of the scientific community, evolution is not a reasonable theory.
Present day evolutionary theory states that "long ago microscopic life must somehow have arisen spontaneously from nonliving matter” (Life 38). In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins discusses how the earth had a "primitive ...
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minimal chances that this organic soup would form. Consider the experiment of Stanley Miller. In 1953, Stanley Miller passed an electric spark through an atmosphere of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water vapor; an atmosphere similar to the so-called "primitive atmosphere." But, this produced only 4 out of the 20 amino acids essential to form life. Interestingly, though, Miller saved the four amino acids only by removing them from the area in which the spark was generated. The book Life - How did it get here explained that "the same energy that would split the simple compounds in the atmosphere would even more quickly decompose any complex amino acids that formed" (Life 41). Therefore, amino acids were preserved only through external intervention. Another interesting thing about Miller's experiment is that he did not put oxygen in his "primitive atmosphere."
Miller's experiment was produced in an atmosphere without oxygen, which we know to be a key element in the atmosphere of ...
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ultraviolet radiation will decompose these molecules when they reach the atmosphere. So, everything is right back where it started.
But, assume that somehow, these molecules get the energy that they need, form a protein, and get back in the water before they are destroyed. Will the body of water accommodate the forming of life? Chemist Richard Dickerson said: "It is therefore hard to see how polymerization [forming larger molecules out of simpler molecules] could have proceeded in the aqueous environment of the primitive ocean, since the presence of water favors depolymerization [the breaking up of larger molecules into simpler molecules], rather than polymerization" (Dickerson 75). ...
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