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generation, a cornerstone of Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lecture
at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never 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 resisted
these findings. However, as the development of science unraveled
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 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. 2

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 the gases he alleged to have
existed in the primordial Earth's atmosphere
in an experiment set-up, and adding energy
to the mixture, Miller synthesized several or-
ganic molecules (amino acids) present in the
structure of proteins.
Alexander Oparin
Barely a few years had passed before it

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