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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. 52
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. 53
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 54
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth
century to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The