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BASIC TENETS OF ISLAM

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 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 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 existed 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
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 atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 4
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century
to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist
Jeffrey Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact
in an article published in Earth magazine in 1998:

Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest

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