Page 180 - Not by Chance

178 THE PERFECT DESIGN IN THE UNIVERSE IS NOT BY CHANCE

Inconclusive Efforts in

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
The Russian biologist
to failure, and Oparin had to make the fol- Alexander Oparin

lowing 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. 31
Evolutionist followers
of Oparin tried to carry out
experiments to solve this

problem. The best known ex-
periment was carried out by
the American chemist

Stanley Miller in 1953.

The artificial atmosphere created by Miller in his experiment actually bore not the slight-
est resemblance to the primitive atmosphere on earth. Today, Miller too accepts that his
1953 experiment was very far from explaining the origin of life.