Another strike against sparked origin of life
The widely publicized 1950s Miller–Urey experiment was long hailed as a breakthrough in explaining life without God. Electrical sparking was used to simulate lightning in a mix of gases assumed to represent the early atmosphere.
The experiment produced only some simple amino acids, and the arguments against its relevance to the origin of life have kept accumulating over the years. Now there is one more. Based on the gaseous mix that is currently speculated to have been present, new research suggests “that lightning strikes were actually less common on the early Earth than previously thought”.
The idea that life formed itself without a Creator is already vanishingly improbable to the point of impossible: see creation.com/origin-of-life.
- Nield, D., Primordial Earth had a major difference in its skies we didn’t realize until now, sciencealert.com, 15 Apr 2022.
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