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I Inconclusive Efforts in the 20th Century
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The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin of life
in the 20th century was the renowned Russian biologist Alexander
Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the 1930's, he tried to
prove that the cell of a living being 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." 47
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experiments
to solve the problem of the origin of life. The best known of these ex-
periments was carried out by 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 molecules (amino
acids) present in the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this ex-
periment, which was then presented as an important step in the
name of evolution, was invalid, the atmosphere used in the experi-
ment having been very different from real earth conditions. 48
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 49
All the evolutionist efforts put forth throughout the 20th century
to explain the origin of life ended with failure. The geochemist
Jeffrey Bada from San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an
article published in Earth Magazine in 1998:
Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest un-
solved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century:
How did life originate on Earth? 50