The Miller-Urey experiments

Oh yes! Even in peer reviewed papers.NCBIYou've probably come across David Abel. About a third of the way down the introduction here, you can read:

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If Pasteur and Virchow’s First Law of Biology (All life must come from previously existing life) is to be empirically falsified, direct observation of spontaneous generation is needed.

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This paper was being discussed recently on William Dembski's blog, Uncommon Descent. So I chimed in at one point and pointed out that Pasteur's law, if taken to mean that "all life always came from previously existing life", would imply that life is eternal, and that that is falsified by cosmology.I don't know who peer reviewed this paper, but it's really metaphysics, not "molecular science". It's wordy creationist crap.

It was published here, apparently. I linked to the actual paper above.International Journal of Molecular Sciences | An Open Access Journal from MDPIThe Wiki entry says:

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The Journal aims at rapid publication of high quality research results while maintaining rigorous peer review process.

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International Journal of Molecular Sciences - WikipediaRigorous enough to have peer reviewers who think that Pasteur's law claims that life is eternal, apparently.

I tried the 6th one down, as a sort of random choice.http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/10/5/2019/pdfIt struck me as a bit nutty, but harmless. A crank theory of order to explain life. See what you two think. Dawkins and Behe both get a mention.

It was a random choice. So far, for me, I've read that one and the Abel paper. It's looking as though Percy has a point! I'll try another at random to be fair.

Next random choice:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/10/4/1838/pdfSeems interesting, although I'm not qualified to judge the chemistry. Nothing cranky about it. It's a hypothesis that "coenzyme-like" molecules performed the function of hereditary before the emergence of nucleic acids. Normal OOL stuff.It might be better to look at stuff outside the OOL section if we wanted to judge the journal, because OOL is inevitably going to involve lots of speculative ideas. But this paper wasn't nutty.