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HARUN YAHYA

Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864,
Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation re-
cover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment." 187
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 or-
ganisms. 188
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 gas-
es he alleged to have existed in the primordial Earth's atmosphere in
an experiment set-up, and adding energy to the mixture, Miller syn-
thesized several organic molecules (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 atmosphere used in the ex-
periment was very different from the real Earth conditions. 189
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere

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