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This episode investigates the much-touted Miller-Urey experiment and the consequences it had for science.
References:
The Creationist Argument
creation.com/why-the-miller-urey-research-argues-against-abiogenesis
answersingenesis.org/origin-of-life/can-natural-processes-explain-the-origin-of-life
creationwiki.org/Stanley_Miller
English Translation of Oparin's Paper
http://www.valencia.edu/~orilife/textos/The%20Origin%20of%20Life.pdf
Haldane's Paper
uv.es/~orilife/textos/Haldane.pdf
Urey's Paper
sciencemag.org/content/115/2999/689.extract
Miller's Paper from Science
abenteuer-universum.de/pdf/miller_1953.pdf
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3da9/3f9916d09405c1066fd664ae6c72b2b94cb3.pdf
MacNevin's Article
MacNevin, W, "Looking Back Two Billion Years", New York Times, March 8, 1953
Oro's Paper
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1961Natur.190..442O
Wilde's Paper
sciencemag.org/content/118/3054/43.2.citation
Bada et al on Miller's unpublished experiments
sciencemag.org/content/322/5900/404
sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016141411.htm
Papers on the Murchison Meteorite
chemport.cas.org/cgi-bin/sdcgi?APP=ftslink&action=reflink&origin=npg&version=1.0&coi=1:CAS:528:DyaE3MXisVCnsg%3D%3D&pissn=0028-0836&pyear=1983&md5=cb8b015f54156458fa2be8cdca44789f
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC438950
sciencemag.org/content/275/5302/951.full
nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6690/abs/394236a0.html
Formamide in Comets
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987JGR....9214933T
RNA Nucleotides formed from Formamide
pnas.org/content/112/3/657
pnas.org/content/114/17/4306#T1
Reproducing and Evolving RNA Chains
nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7527/full/nature13900.html
De Jong's work with Coacervates
http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/DL/publications/PU00015781.pdf
Microspheres
amazon.com/Molecular-Evolution-Origin-Life-Sidney/dp/0716701634
---Extra References
Sidney Fox Protein Synthesis
nature.com/nature/journal/v381/n6577/abs/381059a0.html
RNA Chains on mineral surfaces
nature.com/nature/journal/v381/n6577/abs/381059a0.html
Long chains of RNA catalyzed by clay
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1664692
Formation of cellular vesicles
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14576428 qabalaHCTMRS10
Formation of protein-like polymers
pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja01499a069?src=recsys
Sidney Fox Library
researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2034774-Sidney-W-Fox/publications/2
This episode investigates the much-touted Miller-Urey experiment and the consequences it had for science.
References:
The Creationist Argument
creation.com/why-the-miller-urey-research-argues-against-abiogenesis
answersingenesis.org/origin-of-life/can-natural-processes-explain-the-origin-of-life
creationwiki.org/Stanley_Miller
English Translation of Oparin's Paper
http://www.valencia.edu/~orilife/textos/The%20Origin%20of%20Life.pdf
Haldane's Paper
uv.es/~orilife/textos/Haldane.pdf
Urey's Paper
sciencemag.org/content/115/2999/689.extract
Miller's Paper from Science
abenteuer-universum.de/pdf/miller_1953.pdf
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3da9/3f9916d09405c1066fd664ae6c72b2b94cb3.pdf
MacNevin's Article
MacNevin, W, "Looking Back Two Billion Years", New York Times, March 8, 1953
Oro's Paper
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1961Natur.190..442O
Wilde's Paper
sciencemag.org/content/118/3054/43.2.citation
Bada et al on Miller's unpublished experiments
sciencemag.org/content/322/5900/404
sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081016141411.htm
Papers on the Murchison Meteorite
chemport.cas.org/cgi-bin/sdcgi?APP=ftslink&action=reflink&origin=npg&version=1.0&coi=1:CAS:528:DyaE3MXisVCnsg%3D%3D&pissn=0028-0836&pyear=1983&md5=cb8b015f54156458fa2be8cdca44789f
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC438950
sciencemag.org/content/275/5302/951.full
nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6690/abs/394236a0.html
Formamide in Comets
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987JGR....9214933T
RNA Nucleotides formed from Formamide
pnas.org/content/112/3/657
pnas.org/content/114/17/4306#T1
Reproducing and Evolving RNA Chains
nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7527/full/nature13900.html
De Jong's work with Coacervates
http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/DL/publications/PU00015781.pdf
Microspheres
amazon.com/Molecular-Evolution-Origin-Life-Sidney/dp/0716701634
---Extra References
Sidney Fox Protein Synthesis
nature.com/nature/journal/v381/n6577/abs/381059a0.html
RNA Chains on mineral surfaces
nature.com/nature/journal/v381/n6577/abs/381059a0.html
Long chains of RNA catalyzed by clay
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1664692
Formation of cellular vesicles
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14576428 qabalaHCTMRS10
Formation of protein-like polymers
pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja01499a069?src=recsys
Sidney Fox Library
researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2034774-Sidney-W-Fox/publications/2
