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disproved spontaneous generation, a cornerstone of Darwin's theory. In his
triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never will the
doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by
this simple experiment." 24
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted these
findings. However, as the development of science unraveled the complex
structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come into being
coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

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. 25
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. 26
After a long silence, Miller confessed
that the atmosphere medium he used was
unrealistic. 27 Russian biologist
Alexander Oparin