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October 29, 2008
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, __edited , abiogenesis , chemical evolution , Miller-Urey experiment , prebiotic conditions
Rehabilitating the Miller-Urey Experiment?
Casey Luskin
October 29, 2008
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Episode 267
Guest(s) Casey Luskin
Duration 00:06:49 Download Audio File (4.7 mb)
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On this episode of ID the Future , Casey Luskin examines a new claim by origin of life theorists who seek to rehabilitate the now-discredited Miller-Urey experiment. If life didn’t originate in a “vast primordial soup,” did volcanoes perhaps play a role? Listen in as Luskin explains how far “plausible prebiotic conditions” are from making life.
For more information, read Luskin’s article at Evolution News & Views
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Associate Director and Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureCasey Luskin is a geologist and an attorney with graduate degrees in science and law, giving him expertise in both the scientific and legal dimensions of the debate over evolution. He earned his PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg, and BS and MS degrees in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied evolution extensively at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His law degree is from the University of San Diego, where he focused his studies on First Amendment law, education law, and environmental law.