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haps the most obscure point in the
whole study of the evolution of or-
ganisms. 31
Evolutionist followers of
Oparin tried to carry out experi-
ments to solve this problem. The

best known experiment was car-
ried 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
Alexander Oparin
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 ex-
periment was very different from the real Earth conditions. 32
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 33
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century
to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey

Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an ar-
ticle published in Earth magazine in 1998:
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? 34

Stanley Miller

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