Earth's early atmosphere had no reducing gases (Talk.Origins)

Response ArticleThis article (Earth's early atmosphere had no reducing gases (Talk.Origins)) is a response to a rebuttal of a creationist claim published by Talk.Origins Archive under the title Index to Creationist Claims.

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Claim CB035.2:

Reducing gases likely were not present in the early, prebiotic earth's atmosphere.

Source:

• Discovery Institute. 2003.A preliminary analysis of the treatment of evolution in biology textbooks currently being considered for adoption by the Texas State Board of Education.
• Wells, Jonathan. 2000. Icons of Evolution. Washington DC: Regnery.

CreationWiki response:

This is a straw man argument[1], since this is not what the cited sources say. They say that the simulated atmosphere of Miller’s experiment, "was probably more strongly reducing than the actual atmosphere of the early Earth."