[Snidely Whiplash]

The Miller experiment is about earth's atmosphere, not the universe.

And has essentially nothing to do w/ evolution - evolutionary biology deals with what came after. Nor is it part of current scientific thinking.

That's the thing about science, and I think it's what worries a lot people of faith - there are no hard-and-fast absolutes in science. Religious faith is the polar opposite, by necessity.

Snidely

[bluejay]

That's the thing about science, and I think it's what worries a lot people of faith - there are no hard-and-fast absolutes in science. Religious faith is the polar opposite, by necessity.

There are some absolutes in science. What surprises me, though, is how quickly, otherwise reasonable, people start making preposterous claims to support their not-so-scientific ideas. Miller experiment is a great example. I just checked a recent release of a freshman bio book. It has a description of Miller experiment without mentioning that no one seriously believes that the results of this experiment offer any kind of feasible creation-of-life model. To make it even worse, the book goes on to point out that there are (unarguable, in my opinion) similarities between construction of a whale fin and a human hand. Based on this, they conclude that there is no God. Somewhere, between a fact (anatomical similarity) and a conclusion (there is no God) is a leap of logic that I simply could not penetrate.