Using nothing but rocks, gas and electrical storms?
2007-03-29 23:22:30 · 7 answers · asked by Adia Azrael 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Believe it or not, this has been proven. In 1952, Stanley L. Miller conducted an experiment where he simulated the conditions at the beginning of the earth, when there was nothing but rocks, gas and electrical storms. I was a bit disturbed myself to find out that something actually crawled out, nevertheless, amino acids, the building blocks of life, actually started to build up on the inside of the bottle even though there was no organic material present in it to start with. Man has actually created life.
In case you don't believe:
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/%7esci_info/News_from_ICTP/News_106/features_Origins.html
2007-03-29 23:32:37 · update #1
It depends on your definition of life.
2007-03-29 23:32:10 · answer #1 · answered by chica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ARE clutching at straws!
You need water, carbon and time, and a few other acids and so on.
OK - try this. Make coffee using nothing but elephant droppings, mouse lips and ketchup. Just as preposterous.
On the other hand, make coffee, drink it, enjoy it and then leave the cup out in the open air for three weeks unwashed. See how much life appears.
2007-03-29 23:38:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you call "life".
It is possible to construct a virus in a lab through chemical processes. That's been done.
It has also been shown that so-called "primordial soup" gives rise to self-replicating chemical compounds with the capacity to mutate. While that doesn't quite qualify as "life", it's a darn good start.
If you're looking for something as complex as a single-celled organism, then the answer (thus far) is "no". Then again, it's not quite fair to expect life to arise in a lab in a matter of years, if you aren't allowed to use anything but the conditions prevailing upon primordial earth. For all we know, it may have taken hundreds of millions of years for cells to evolve under those conditions.
2007-03-29 23:33:08 · answer #3 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You ARE clutching at straws!
You need water, carbon and time, and a few other acids and so on.
OK - try this. Make coffee using nothing but elephant droppings, mouse lips and ketchup. Just as preposterous.
On the other hand, make coffee, drink it, enjoy it and then leave the cup out in the open air for three weeks unwashed. See how much life appears.
2007-03-29 23:26:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's been done in a lab using chemicals, water and electricity.
2007-03-29 23:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by sarcastro1976 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe all the sh*t you read on here.
2007-03-29 23:34:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
or mud and paper and ink.
2007-03-29 23:30:14 · answer #7 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋