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lution 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 experi-
ment was carried out by the American
chemist Stanley Miller in 1953. Com-
bining those gases he alleged to have
existed in the primordial Earth’s at-
mosphere in an experimental set-up, lutionist theorists, the origin of
As accepted also by the latest evo-
and adding energy to the mixture, life is still a great stumbling block
Miller synthesized several organic for the theory of evolution.
molecules (amino acids) present in
the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this ex-
periment, which was then presented as an important step in the
name of evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in the ex-
periment 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 atmos-
phere medium he used was unrealistic. (Stanley Miller, Molecular
Evolution of Life: Current Status of the Prebiotic Synthesis of Small Mole-
cules, 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 ar-
ticle published in Earth magazine in 1998: