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solve the problem of the origin of life. The best known of these exper-
iments was carried out by 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 ex-
periment, which was then presented as an important step in the name
of evolution, was invalid, the atmosphere used in the experiment
having been very different from real earth conditions. 4
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic. 5
All the evolutionist efforts put forth throughout the twentieth cen-
tury to explain the origin of life ended with failure. The geochemist
Jeffrey Bada from 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 un-
solved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: How
did life originate on Earth? 6

The Complex Structure of Life
The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a
big impasse about the origin of life is that even the living organisms
deemed the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The cell of a
living being is more complex than all of the technological products
produced by man. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of
the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chem-
icals together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in
quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of
proteins, the building blocks of cell, being synthesized coincidentally,