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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century
The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the ori-
gin 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 fail-
ure, 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 exper-
iments 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 primor-
dial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding
energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic mol-
ecules (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 atmos-
phere used in the experiment was very different from the
real Earth conditions. 3
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmos-
phere 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 unsolved problem that we had when we entered
the twentieth century: How did life originate on Earth? 5

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