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THE EVOLUTION MISCONCEPTION

could come into being coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts in 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 ad-
vanced in the 1930's, he tried to prove
that the cell of a living being could
originate by coincidence. These stud-
ies, however, were doomed to failure,
and Oparin had to make the follow-
ing confession: "Unfortunately, how-
ever, the problem of the origin of the
cell is perhaps the most obscure point
in the whole study of the evolution of
organisms." 55
Evolutionist followers of Oparin
tried to carry out experiments to Alexander Oparin's attempts to offer an
evolutionist explanation for the origin of
solve the problem of the origin of life.
life ended in a great fiasco.
The best known of these experiments
was carried out by 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 syn-
thesized several organic molecules (amino acids) present in the structure
of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this exper-
iment, which was then presented as an important step in the name of evo-
lution, was invalid, the atmosphere used in the experiment having been
very different from real earth conditions. 56
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic. 57
All the evolutionist efforts put forth throughout the twentieth cen-

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