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sem bling one an oth er. When these study of the ev o lu tion of or gan isms."
frauds were ex posed, he had no oth - 77
er de fense oth er than to say that oth - Ever since Oparin, ev o lu tion ists
er ev o lu tion ists did ex act ly the have car ried out
same thing: count less ex per -
After this com pro mis ing con - i ments, stud ies
fes sion of ‘for ger y' I should be and ob ser va -
obliged to con sid er my self con - tions to prove
demned and an ni hi lat ed if I had that the cell
not the con so la tion of see ing could have
side by side with me in the pris - come in to ex is -
on er's dock hun dreds of fel low-
tence by chance.
cul prits, among them many of
However, ev ery
the most trust ed ob serv ers and Alexander I. Oparin study has un -
most es teemed bi ol o gists. The
der mined ev o -
great ma jor i ty of all the di a grams in
lu tion ists' as sump tions by re veal ing
the best bi o log i cal text books, trea tis es
in ev er-great er de tail the com plex
and jour nals would in cur in the same
cre a tion in the cell.
de gree the charge of ‘'for gery,' for all of
them are in ex act, and are more or less
doc tored, sche ma tised and con struct ed.
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The term "open sys tem" re fers to
a ther mo dy nam ic sys tem with an ex -
OPARIN, ALEXANDER I. ter nal en er gy source, in to which
mat ter en ters and de parts. Since the
The Russian bi ol o gist Alexander
the o ry of ev o lu tion con flicts with the
I. Oparin, founder of the con cept of
Second Law of Thermodynamics
"chem i cal ev o lu tion," could not ob -
(the Law of Entropy), ev o lu tion ists
tain any find ings to shed light on the
main tain that this en tro py ap plies
or i gins of life, de spite all his the o ret -
on ly to closed sys tems. They re sort to
i cal re search. In his 1936 book The
a de cep tion, main tain ing that open
Origin of Life, he wrote,
sys tems lie out side this law. They
"Unfortunately . . . the prob lem of
sug gest, fur ther, that the Earth's bi o -
the or i gin of the cell is per haps the
sphere is an open sys tem, be ing ex -
most ob scure point in the whole
posed to a con stant flow of en er gy
Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar