DU science teachers check in

[central scrutinizer]

Do your students need a project for the science fair? See if your students can duplicate some of these results and experience the scientific method.

http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html

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1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life"

Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.

[Redleg]

1. Have they tried the Miller-Ury experiment?

What a bunch of f@cking ignorant, superstitious simpletons.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. She obviously terminated the experiment prematurely

She should have waited another couple hundred million years. She also needed an energy source (like electric discharge in the Miller-Urey experiment which does produce amino acids).

http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html

[central scrutinizer]

3. hey - three weeks or a coupla hundred million years?

In terms of eternity, both round off to zero, so what is the difference?

[Amaya]

4. Completely ignorant

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