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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 failure, and Oparin had to make the fol-
lowing confession:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is
perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolu-
tion 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
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 atmos-
phere used in the experiment was very different from the
real Earth conditions. 3
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 4
All the evolutionists’ efforts throughout the twentieth
century to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geo-
chemist Jeffrey Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute