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Old 03-20-2008, 12:21 PM   #9
ernie
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Originally Posted by worth View Post
Can't we synthetically create organic compounds by adding certain molecules into a container and adding electricity? The major jump is from organic compounds to life.
As shown yes.

There are also experiments showing that amino acids can be formed in relatively short time at various temperatures (even as cold as liquid nitrogen if I remember correctly) from cyanide and ammonia sealed in a tube. Might have been something else as well but I can't remember.
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