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Inconclusive Efforts in 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 evo-
lution of organisms. 69
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 primor-
dial Earth's atmosphere in an experi-
ment set-up, and adding energy to the
mixture, Miller synthesized several or-
ganic molecules (amino acids) present
in the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed be-
fore it was revealed that this experi- Alexander Oparin
ment, which was then presented as an
important step in the name of evolution, was invalid, for the at-
mosphere used in the experiment was very different from the real
Earth conditions. 70
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 71

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