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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the
mortal blow struck by this simple experiment." 1
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resist-

ed these findings. However, as the development of science un-
raveled the complex structure of the cell of a living being, the
idea that life could come into being coincidentally faced an
even greater impasse.

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 biol-
ogist 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 perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the
evolution of organisms. 2
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried
to carry out experiments to solve this
problem. The best known experi-
ment was carried out by the Ameri-
can chemist Stanley Miller in 1953.
Combining the gases he alleged to
have existed in the primordial
Earth's atmosphere in an experi-
ment set-up, and adding energy to
the mixture, Miller synthesized sev-
Russian biologist
Alexander Oparin

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