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In a message dated 99-08-28 16:01:24 EDT, you write:
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In a message dated 8/28/99 1:02:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Abiogenesis has
> been observed - why invoke god(s)?
I'd sure like to know when this has been observed. Did some scientists
create life sometime, out of nonliving matter. That would be major news
after all. I'm not talking about self replicating chemicals, I'm talking
about lifeforms, created. There is a Quantum leap from self replicating
chemical compounds and life in my view. When was life created from nonliving
matter? >>
Abiogenesis (living units produced from non-living materials) was explored in
1953 in an experiment by Stanley Miller and Harold Urey. They mixed water
vapor, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen gas in a reacting chamber with
electrodes and a heat source. Within a week, the mixture contained amino
acids and other components of living cells.
Other experiments have produced ATP and the bases of DNA and RNA. If these
compounds could be encapsulated in some sort of semipermeable membrane, it is
conceivable that a proto-cell could possibly develope. To my knowledge, this
has never been demonstrated.
This is not living organisms being created from non-living materials.
Regards,
Bob Stokes
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