Abstract
After reviewing evolutionists' speculations on the origin of life, Clemmey and Badham say, "... the dogma has arisen that Earth's early atmosphere was anoxic,..." By "anoxic" they mean an atmosphere without free oxygen gas (O), very different from the oxidizing mixture we breathe. The generally accepted model for the evolution of the atmosphere supposes that before about 1.9 billion years ago the earth's atmosphere was a reducing mixture of nitrogen (N), methane (CH). Solar radiation and lightning discharges into the reducing gas mixture are believed by the consensus of evolutionists to have produced natural organic compounds and eventually life itself. The reason evolutionists postulate an anoxic and reducing atmosphere is mentioned by Miller and Orgel, "We believe that there must have been a period when the earth's atmosphere was reducing, because the synthesis of compounds of biological interest takes place only under reducing conditions."