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Futile Efforts in the
Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin of life in the twen-
tieth 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 chance. 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. (Alexan-
der I. Oparin, Origin of Life, Dover Publications, New York, 1936, 1953 and
2003 (reprint), p. 196)

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 those gases he alleged to have existed in the
primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experimental 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 experiment,
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. ("New Evidence on Evolution of Early Atmosphere and

Life," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 63, November 1982,
1328-1330)
After a long silence, Miller, himself confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic. (Stanley Miller, Molecular Evolution of Life: Current Status
of the Prebiotic Synthesis of Small Molecules, 1986, p. 7)
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, accepted this fact in an article published in Earth magazine

in 1998: