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The Deception Of Evolution

proved spontaneous generation, a cornerstone of Darwin's the-
ory. In his triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur
said: "Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recov-
er from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment." 22
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted
these findings. However, as the development of science unrav-
eled the complex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea
that life could come into being coincidentally faced an even
greater impasse.

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The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin of
life in the twentieth century was the renowned Russian biolo-
gist 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 perhaps the most obscure
point in the whole study of the
evolution of organisms. 23
Evolutionist followers of
Oparin tried to carry out experi-
ments to solve this problem. The
best known experiment was car-
ried out by the American
chemist Stanley Miller in 1953.
Combining the gases he alleged
to have existed in the primordial Russian biologist,
Alexander Oparin