Life created in a lab?

In one of our earlier posts, we discussed the limitations of operational science (that is, the science that is responsible for computers, medical advances and putting men on the moon, ). Operational science is limited to studying things that can be observed, repeated, tested and falsified. Something that happened in the past that is not, or cannot be, repeated falls outside the realm of operational science.
I recently was involved in a discussion with someone about the fact that spontaneous generation of life has never been observed, therefore, it has never been proven. This person argued that life had been created in a laboratory. The experiment to which he referred is called the Urey-Miller Experiment, more commonly the Miller Experiment. The result of this experiment was the production of amino acids which are the building blocks of DNA. This was touted as proof that life could be formed spontaneously. So did this experiment prove that intelligence is not needed to form life? Ummm...think about it.
Back to the experiment: So how close did Dr. Miller come to forming life in a test tube? Well amino acids are about as close to life as a teaspoon of flour is to biscuits. Amino acids make up protiens; protiens linked together form DNA. DNA, simply put, is the information needed to make life - but it is still not life. In order to go from DNA to life, you need a mechanism to read and reproduce the DNA to form cells on a massive scale. That's no easy accomplishment considering there are no simple cells. To make it more difficult, the mechanism to read and duplicate the DNA is found inside the cells themselves. So which came first: the cell that makes the DNA or the DNA that specifies how to make the cell?
For more info about the Miller experiment, visit:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/wow/can-natural-processes-explain

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