[_ Old Earth _] Chuck Missler and Peanut Butter

[sk8rpinoi32]

I saw a thing about Chuck Missler and Peanut Butter, about how the laws of Biology are at a stalemate about the origins of life. I had to agree that Missler had a point when he threw in Pastuers law of biology but there is one experiment I want to add. There's a theory of life that states that on the molten Earth, there was water and soil, and lightning. So an expierment was conducted in tubes of water that was electrified and heated then cooled. Weeks later proteins and sugars were formed, which is enough to support life. what do you guys think?

 

[lordkalvan]

I think you are referring to Stanley's Miller's experiments in the early 1950s at the University of Chicago. The conditions simulated did not include a molten Earth (which would pretty much exclude the possibility of liquid water existing!) and resulted in the generation of a number of amino acids.

Missler's peanut butter argument is wholly risible. Jars of food are sometimes found to be contaminated with 'life'. How can Missler be sure this 'life' did not emerge spontaneously? Missler also assumes that primitive life must be immediately visible and detectable as such.