The Miller-Urey Experiment
By the late 1990s, the 1953 Miller-Urey experiment (MU) had been thoroughly debunked. That’s why Jonathan Wells included it in his 2000 book, Icons of Evolution, as an example of one of the evolutionary myths the scientific establishment continues to prop up.1
Today, if you google MU, the top results still reference it as “groundbreaking” and “one of the first successful experiments demonstrating the synthesis of organic compounds from inorganic constituents in an origin of life scenario.”2 Interestingly, that article and others like it describe MU as having “simulated the conditions thought at the time to be present in the atmosphere...
is a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (B. S., Aerospace Engineering) and Biola University (M.A., Christian Apologetics). Recently retired, his professional aviation career included 8 years in the U. S. Marine Corps flying the AV-8B Harrier attack jet and nearly 32 years as a commercial airline pilot. Bob blogs about Christianity and the culture at: True Horizon.
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