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Originally Posted by worth
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.
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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.