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Harun Yahya

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 confes-

sion: Russian biologist Alexander Oparin
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. 138
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 sev-
eral 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
Stanley Miller

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