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To: Brumar89 who wrote (917441)	1/27/2016 10:57:32 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574005

I think just reading what you wrote there, it's obvious Miller and Urey had a target and designed their experiment to get the target. They wanted to produce complex organic chemicals. Wanting that, and dumping a bunch of gases in a container and sparking them doesn't amount to "design". BTW, Miller and Urey's ideas about the early atmosphere have, I think, been shown to be offbase. There's something to that but 1 - "Shown to be" is probably a bit strong. The current theory is different, but nothing is certain here. 2 - Those gasses probably would be around a volcano at the time, even if they were not extremely common in the atmosphere otherwise.