By Ed Yong
...Miller conducted (click here) his original 1953 experiment as a graduate student, working with his mentor Harold Urey. It was one of the first to tackle the seemingly insurmountable question of how life began. In their laboratory, the pair tried to recreate the conditions on early lifeless Earth, with an atmosphere full of simple gases and laced with lightning storms. They filled a flask with water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen and sent sparks of electricity through them.
The result, both literally and figuratively, was lightning in a bottle. When Miller looked at the samples from the flask, he found five different amino acids – the building blocks of proteins and essential components of life....
Lightning, besides existing during Earth's earliest years, would bring about movement of electrons between the compounds that facilitated the new bonding to form amino acids.
When pondering the beginning of life as Earth knows it; the question is not how did DNA occur, but, what brought about the sheer existence of hydrogen? Hydrogen the first element in the periodic table. (click here)
Producing hydrogen is very different than creating it.
water (H2O), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2) (click here for video)
