by Bryan Ridenour

Created on: August 06, 2009

Evolutionary thought claimed the spotlight in 1859 as Charles Darwin published his renowned work, "The Origin of the Species." Since that time, many scientists have continued to follow in his footsteps and have gone from believing that evolution is a theory to teaching it as a known fact. However, the truth remains, Evolution is and will forever be a theory, and unfortunately has been one of the greatest frauds to be perpetuated on mankind.

The common belief of students in public schools and colleges is that living organisms evolve from non-living chemicals. Why? Because that is what instructors are teaching from their lecterns in biological science classes today. There are many people who believe that scientists have "created" life during scientific experiments because their textbooks bolster evolutionary beginnings. Some choose to base their evolutionary beliefs upon findings made by scientist Stanley Miller.

In 1953, Scientist Stanley Miller decided that he wanted to prove the theory of evolution by creating life in the laboratory. He thought about what must have been present before life began and decided upon a mixture of gases (ammonia, hydrogen, methane and water vapor) that might have made up the earth's atmosphere millions of years ago. He passed an electric current through the gases simulating a lightening strike. From this experiment, he produced a mixture of amino acids. Science teaches us that amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and proteins are in turn the building blocks of life. Evolutionary proponents hailed Miller's experiment as proof that life had evolved millions of years ago.

However, there are some problems with the results of his experiment:

1. Miller had no proof that his choice of gases were the gases which made up the earth's atmosphere.

2. Stanley Miller made sure there was no oxygen present for his experiment. That is a big issue. If there was oxygen present, then amino acids could not form. However, if there were no oxygen present millions of years ago when life developed by chance, then there would be no ozone layer. If there was no ozone layer, then ultraviolet rays would penetrate the earth's atmosphere and then destroy the amino acids as soon as they formed. So, according to Answers in Genesis contributor A. J. Monty White, "The dilemma facing the evolutionist can be summed up this way: amino acids would not form in an atmosphere with oxygen and amino acids would be destroyed in an atmosphere

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