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science unraveled the complex structure of the cell of a liv-
ing being, the idea that life could come into being coinci-
dentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century
The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the ori-
gin 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 fol-
lowing 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. 2

Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out exper-
iments 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 primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up,
and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized sev-
eral organic molecules (amino acids) present in the struc-
ture 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 conditions. 3
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmos-

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