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THE PAINS OF THE FALSE WORLD

Inconclusive Efforts of 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 failure, and Oparin had
to make the following confession:

Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is per
-
haps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of
organisms.
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Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experi-
ments to solve this problem. The best known experiment was
carried out by the American chemist Stanley Miller in 1953. Com-
bining the gases he alleged to have existed in the primord i a l
Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding energy
to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic molecules

(amino acids) present in the structure of proteins.
B a rely a few years had passed before it was revealed that
this experiment, which was then presented as an important step
in the name of evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in
the experiment was very diff e rent from the real Earth conditi-
ons. 3
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 4
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth cen-
tury to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist
J e ff rey Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this
fact in an article published in Earthmagazine in 1998:

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