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The Dark Spell of Darwinism

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 fail-
ure, 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. 68
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 existed in the
primordial Earth's atmosphere in an 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 experiment was very different from
the real Earth conditions. 69
After a long silence, Miller confessed that
the atmosphere medium he used was unreal-
istic. 70
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 ac-
cepts this fact in an article 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
Russian biologist life originate on Earth? 71
Alexander Oparin

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