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will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal
blow struck by this simple experiment." 131
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 or-
igin of the cell is perhaps the most obscure
point in the whole study of the evolution of
organisms. 132

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. Alexander Oparin HARUN YAHYA
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.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this ex- (ADNAN OKTAR)

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