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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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