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theory. In his triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said:
"Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the
mortal blow struck by this simple experiment." 6
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted these find-
ings. However, as the development of science unraveled the complex struc-
ture of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come into being co-
incidentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up the sub-
ject 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, how-
ever, 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
Ale xan der Opa rin
point in the whole study of the evolution of or-
ganisms. 7
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 alleged to have ex-
isted in the primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and
adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic molecules
(amino acids) present in the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this experi-
ment, 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. 8
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium

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