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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. 2
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experi-
ments to solve this problem. The best known experiment was
carried out by the American chemist Stanley Miller in 1953.
Combining the gases he alleged to have existed in the primor-
dial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding
energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic mol-
ecules (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 impor-
tant step in the name of evolution, was invalid, for the
atmosphere used in the experiment was very different
from the real Earth conditions. 3
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmos-
phere medium he used was unrealistic. 4
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 article published in Earth mag-
azine in 1998:
Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the
biggest unsolved problem that we had when we entered
the twentieth century: How did life originate on Earth? 5

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why evolutionists ended up in such a
great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those liv-