Evolution? How?

Carl Sagan in an experiment in the PBS series "Cosmos" came up with a primordial organic matter from non-living chemicals and minerals that were present in the water of a very early Earth. Electricity played a part (lightning) if I remember right. It's been performed more than once -- now too length a search as I am at work in the gallery today (no rest for the wicked!) and do not have the time to find links. This is like helping people who are students in first year college in anthropology, geology, plate teutonics, et al. Not really interested in that if the don't personally want to study. It requires a open mind to science and time -- those in denial don't want their bubble burst so they will use any excuse not to do their own research.

And maybe you can tell us all you know about plate teutonics. Should be interesting.

Abiotic Production of Organic Molecules
The classic experiment demonstrating the mechanisms by which inorganic elements could combine to form the precursors of organic chemicals was the 1950 experiment by Stanley Miller. He undertook experiments designed to find out how lightning--reproduced by repeated electric discharges--might have affected the primitive earth atmosphere. He discharged an electric spark into a mixture thought to resemble the primordial composition of the atmosphere. In a water receptacle, designed to model an ancient ocean, amino acids appeared. Amino acids are widely regarded as the building blocks of life.
Although the primitive atmosphere is no longer believed to be as rich in hydrogen as once thought, the discovery that the Murchison meteorite contains the same amino acids obtained by Miller, and even in the same relative proportions, suggests strongly that his results are relevant.The Beginnings of Life on Earth


Others have made similar experiments. A group at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, exposed sulfur-bearing molecules like those thought to have been present before the Earth formed to low levels of light. The presence of the light was enough to generate organic compounds - molecules containing carbon, which form the chemical basis of life as we know it. Meteorite Reveals Life Not Difficult to Make


The new compounds had a distinct isotopic (atomic makeup) signature, not normally found on Earth. In fact, the peculiar part is that these isotopes have only been found one other time, in compounds removed from the Murchison meteorite.

Miller produced non-living compounds from non-living chemicals. Truly an amazing thing.

You're also becoming a one trick debate pony, feigning total ignorance of logical deduction, and arguing mere coincidence as an explanation for overlapping interrelated conclusions from every branch of scientific study.

The absurdity of your entropy objection, rl, lies in thorough misunderstanding both of the 2cnd Law of Thermodynamics and of chemistry. You see, entropy, in the sense you attribute, applies only to a closed system. Given that the earth receives enormous energy fron the sun, it by defintion is not a closed system. Then, of course, there is the energy of gravity, and of orbital momentum, and of extra-solar radiation - all of it energy being input to the Earth.There is in fact no reason to conclude the universe iitself is a closed system; there are indications it may be, but we just don't know for sure.

The 2cnd Law pertains to the properties, attributes, and tendencies of energy, not to objects, molecules, or organisms. However, a basic understanding of chemistry makes plain that the 2cnd Law is no predictor of disorder, but rather, in a dynamic system, mandates that energy be not restricted to one plane, location, or set of parameters, but to disperse throughout the environment, much a a gas seeks to expand to fill the available space. As energy constantly is being input into the system of which Earth is a component, energy acts continually on everything within the system.

Chemically, the individual components of many sorts of molecules are at once more energetic and less ordered than are the molecules themselves. Take water, for instance - a compound which has inherently less energy either than oxygen or hydrogen, its elemental constituents, and is far more complex than any single atom of hydrogen or oxygen. Within a dynamic system, the 2cnd Law orders the formation of increasingly complex entities, as the action of energy upon atoms and molecules brings about combinations and compounds, and synthesis, catalysis, and other chemical reactions, driven both by the energy inherent to the individual componets of compounds and by the energy constantly being input into the system progresses inexorably to more and more complex systems being formed from the basic, elemental, atomic-level building blocks.

Now rl wants to be taught about plate tectonics (jibbing me for a typo -- typical of a deadhead).

If I were to begin correcting his grammar, my blue pencil would have been worn down to a stub by now.

That aside, this person seems to be doing a homework assignment. Maybe sixth grade?

The question has been answered satisfactorily by others. It will only be a question of time before the organic primordial matter is coaxed into a living organism. Oh, horrors! Lowly people playing God. Haven't they read Frankenstein?

....... It will only be a question of time before the organic primordial matter is coaxed into a living organism. Oh, horrors! Lowly people playing God. Haven't they read Frankenstein?