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sisted 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.

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The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin
of life in the twentieth century was the renowned Russian biolo-
gist Alexander Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the
1930s, he tried to prove that a living cell could originate by coin-
cidence. 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 evolu-
tion of organisms. 194
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 195 3.
Combining the gases he alleged to have existed in the primor-
dial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding en-
ergy 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 condi-
tions.195
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 196
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth cen-
tury to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist
Jeffrey Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this
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