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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

Futile Efforts in the Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up the sub-
ject of the origin of life in the twentieth century

was the renowned Russian biologist Alexan-
der Oparin. With various theses he advanced
in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a living cell
could originate by chance. These studies, howev-
er, were doomed to failure, and Oparin had Russian biologist
to make the following confession: Alexander Oparin

Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is
perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolu-
tion of organisms. (Alexander I. Oparin, Origin of

Life, Dover Publications, New York, 1936, 1953
and 2003 (reprint), p. 196)

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 those gases

American chemist
Stanley Miller

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