[[So things that happen carefully controlled experiments can’t happen outside this experiments?
I’m having difficulty following your logic.]]
Did I say it can’t happen? No- I’m saying it is essentially impossible- and we’re talking a VERY serious impossibility here, and pointing out that it is illogical in light of htis to bleeive it did happen
[[Miller’s experiment could be replicated by a 12 year-old.]]
Rwally? Because Miller had to isolate the created acids fro mthe power that sparked them, and had to then isolate the acids fro meach other in carefully controlled conditions- not many 12 years old have hte knowhow to do this
[[The reason for the careful controls is not that careful controls are necessary for the reactions to take place,]]
Yes they were- chemicals all had to be arranged ‘just so’, as well as just hte right ingredients for hte ‘soup’ had to be constructed
[[but that controls are necessary to rule out contamination as the source of the products.]]
Thati s not entirely true- controls were needed to construct acids from chemicals- this wans’t just some random zapping goign on- every step of hte experiement was intelligently designed and controlled- and NOT just to prevent contamination either.
I would say that unless you know the specific steps by which life arose from non-life -- and even the Bible says it did -- you cannot calculate the probabilities.
You can, of course, calculate the probability of cells assembling in one step via quantum leap, but no one asserts this happened (except, I suppose, creationists).
But there is no theory, and no hypothesis which specifies the steps, so I am at a loss as to how you calculate the odds.