Origin of Life

Stanley Miller's experiment, The Spark Chamber, influenced millions of Americans to believe that life can be created in a test tube. Miller, a world renowned scientist with a Ph. D in Chemistry, did combine certain chemicals and created amino acids, but was his experiment valid. In his book, Creation: Facts of Life, Dr. Gary Parker wrote that Miller had the wrong starting materials, used the wrong conditions, and got the wrong results. Dr. Parker explained that Miller had the wrong materials because he left out oxygen. So in order for this test to be valid you have to assume that oxygen was not present, despite the fact that it is present today. He also used the wrong conditions. He used a spark of electricity to combine the molecules, but he knew that the same spark would destroy the amino acid that he made. In order to avoid this, he created a "trap" so that the amino acid would not be destroyed instantly. And lastly, he got the wrong results. All living things are made of only left-handed amino acids. Miller actually made a mixture of left and right-handed amino acids. The problem with this is that even one right-handed amino acid combined with left-handed amino acids will prevent the necessary twisting of the proteins. To quote Dr. Parker, "What Miller actually produced was a seething brew of potent poisons that would absolutely destroy any hope for the chemical evolution of life." Despite these overwhelming issues, textbooks in public schools still teach that the spark chamber experiment is good evidence that evolution is true.