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ses 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. 22
Evolutionist followers of Oparin
tried to carry out experiments to solve
this problem. The best known experiment The Russian biologist
Alexander Oparin
was carried out by the American chemist
Stanley Miller in 1953. Combining the gases he alleged to have ex-
isted in the primordial 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, for the atmosphere used in the experiment
was very different from the real Earth conditions. 23
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 24
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century to

explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey
Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an arti-
cle 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 cen-
tury: How did life originate on Earth? 25

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