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The Deception of Evolution

Inconclusive Efforts in the Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up
the subject of the origin of life in the
twentieth century was the renowned
Russian biologist Alexander Oparin.
With various theses he advanced in the
1930s, he tried to prove that a living cell
could originate by coincidence. These
studies, however, were doomed to fail-
ure, and Oparin had to make the follow-
ing confession:
Unfortunately, however, the prob- Alexander Oparin
lem of the origin of the cell is per-
haps the most obscure point in the
whole study of the evolution of
organisms. 83
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experiments to
solve this problem. The best known experiment was carried out by the
American chemist Stanley Miller in 1953. Combining the gases he al-
leged to have existed in the primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experi-
ment set-up, and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized
several organic molecules (amino acids) present in the structure of pro-
teins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this exper-
iment, which was then presented as an important step in the name of
evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in the experiment was
very different from the real Earth conditions. 84
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic. 85

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