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The Miracles of our Prophet (saas)

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.
Alexander Oparin 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. 105

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.
Combining the gases he alleged to have existed in the primor-
dial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding
energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic mol-
ecules (amino acids) present in the structure of proteins.
Barely 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 atmos-
phere used in the experiment was very different from the re-
al Earth conditions. 106
After a long silence, Miller confessed that

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