And you can see the amino acids build up, they plateau,

and then they start going away.

And so you write away you know not only they're being produced,

but they're being consumed.

And as the gases get consumed,

then the amino acid production slows down,

the consuming reactions take over.

ID, the Future, a podcast about evolution

and intelligent design.

Hello and welcome to ID the Future.

I'm Casey Luskin, and today we have on the show with us a very special

guest, and frankly, this is a podcast that I've been looking forward to doing for years. We have on

the show with us today, Dr. Ed Peltzer. Ed holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Bucknell

University, and then he earned a PhD in Oceanography from Scripps Institution for Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, studying some of the chemistry that produces organic molecules in meteorites.

He studied there under Professor Jeffrey Beta and also had the famous Origin of Life theorist Stanley Miller on his thesis committee.

But Beta is also a very well-known origin of life theorist.

And actually, Beta was one of my professors when I was taking courses at Scripps as a student at

UC San Diego many years later. And of course, Jeffrey, Beta is also a leader in the field of

origin of life chemistry. And so Ed himself is also an expert in prebiotic synthesis and origin of life chemistry.

And his research was directly relevant to important questions related to the origin of life.

After earning his PhD, Evan went on to do research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

for about 20 years and eventually went to the Monterey Bay Research

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