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Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

ence unraveled the complex structure of the cell of a living 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 confes-
sion:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is perhaps
the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of organ-
isms. 83
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 al-
leged to have existed in the primordial
Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-
up, and adding energy to the mixture,
Miller synthesized several organic mole-
cules (amino acids) present in the struc-
ture of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before
it was revealed that this experiment,
which was then presented as an impor-
tant step in the name of evolution, was
invalid, for the atmosphere used in the
experiment was very different from the Ale xan der Opa rin
real Earth conditions. 84

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