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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, how-

ever, 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. 92
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 exper-
iment set-up, and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized
several organic molecules (amino acids) present in the structure of pro-
teins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this ex-

periment, 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. 93

A lexander Oparin's attempts to
offer an evolutionist explanation
for the origin of life ended in a
great fiasco.

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar