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THE MIRACLE IN THE SEED

For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted these
findings. However, as the development of science unraveled the com-
plex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come
into being coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of 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 to failure, and Oparin had to make the
following 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. 61

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 the gases he al-
leged to have existed in the primordial Earth's atmosphere in an exper-
iment 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 this ex-
periment, which was then presented as an im-
portant step in the name of evolution, was
invalid, for the atmosphere used in the experi-
ment was very different from the real Earth
conditions. 62
After a long silence, Miller confessed that
the atmosphere medium he used was unreal-
istic. 63
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout
Alexander Oparin