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CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE CELL
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 do-
omed to failure, and Oparin had
to make the following confession:
Unfortunately, however, the
problem of the origin of the
cell is perhaps the most obs-
cure point in the whole study
of the evolution of orga-
nisms. 2
Alexander Oparin
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 exis-
ted in the primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up,
and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several orga-
nic 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. 3
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere me-
dium he used was unrealistic. 4
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? 5

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