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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 liv-
ing cell could originate by coincidence.
These studies, however, were doomed
to failure, and Oparin had to make the
following confession:
Unfortunately, however, the prob-
lem of the origin of the cell is per-
haps the most obscure point in the
whole study of the evolution of organ-
isms. 155
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to
The French biologist
carry out experiments to solve this problem. The Louis Pasteur
best known experiment was car-
ried 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 experiment

set-up, and adding energy to the mix-
ture, Miller synthesized several organ-
ic molecules (amino acids) present in
the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed be-
fore it was revealed that this experiment,
The Russian biologist Alexander
Oparin

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)