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“Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the
mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.” (Sidney Fox, Klaus
Dose, Molecular Evolution and The Origin of Life, W. H. Freeman and
Company, San Francisco, 1972, p. 4.)
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted
Pasteur’s 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.

FUTILE 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 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.
(Alexander 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 al-
leged to have existed in the primordial Earth’s atmosphere in an exper-
imental set-up, and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized
several organic molecules (amino acids) present in the structure of pro-
teins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that t this ex-
periment, 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)