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Confessions fr om Evolutionists

he theory of evolution faces no greater crisis than on the point of explaining the

emergence of life. The reason is that organic molecules are so complex that
T their formation cannot possibly be explained as being coincidental and it is
manifestly impossible for an organic cell to have been formed by chance.
Evolutionists confronted the question of the origin of life in the second quarter of the
20th century. One of the leading authorities of the theory of molecular evolution, the

Russian evolutionist Alexander I. Oparin, said this in his book The Origin of Life, which
was published in 1936:
Unfortunately, the origin of the cell remains a question which is actually the darkest point of

the complete evolution theory. 1
Since Oparin, evolutionists have performed countless experiments, conducted
research, and made observations to prove that a cell could have been formed by
chance. However, every such attempt only made clearer the complex design of
the cell and thus refuted the evolutionists' hypotheses even more. Professor

Klaus Dose, the president of the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of
Johannes Gutenberg, states:

More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemi-
cal and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the
problem of the origin of life on Earth rather than to its solution. At pre-
sent all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the
field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance. 2

The following statement by the geochemist Jeffrey Bada
from San Diego Scripps Institute makes clear the help-

lessness of evolutionists concerning this impasse:
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? 3

Jeffrey Bada:
Alexander Oparin:
"... the origin of "... the biggest un-
the cell remains a solved problem ... :
question..." How did life origi-
nate on Earth?"

1- Alexander I. Oparin, Origin of Life, (1936) NewYork: Dover Publications, 1953 (Reprint), p.196.
2- Klaus Dose, "The Origin of Life: More Questions Than Answers", Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol 13, No. 4,
1988, p. 348
3- Jeffrey Bada, Earth, February 1998, p. 40

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