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Oparin was unable to obtain any meaningful results from his
research, and finally admitted:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is
perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evo-
lution of organisms. 109

After Oparin, a great many Darwinists have performed
countless experiments attempting to prove that cells came into
being as the result of evolutionary coincidences, but every one
ended in failure. The most highly regarded of these doomed ex-
periments was carried out in 1953 by the American researcher
Stanley Miller.
Miller prepared a mechanism conforming to Oparin's

chemical evolution model. A mixture of the gasses assumed to
represent the primordial atmosphere, methane (CH ), ammo-
4
niac (NH ), steam (H O) and hydrogen (H ) was placed in a
3 2 2
tank containing an electrical apparatus. Miller then sent a high-
voltage electrical charge through the tank to simulate the effect
of ultraviolet light on the pre-life atmospheric gasses. He then
heated this gas mixture to 100 degrees for a week, while contin-

uing to supply an electrical current, and eventually observed
that three of the 20 amino acids essential to life had been syn-
thesized. He immediately separated these molecules from the
tank using a mechanism known as a cold trap. Other experi-
ments made under similar conditions obtained various other
amino acids under similar conditions.
This experiment carried out by Miller under allegedly pri-
mordial conditions was a source of great rejoicing among Dar-
winists, who portrayed the experiment as an enormous success.

From their point of view, the experiment showed that biologi-
cal building blocks could have been produced from simple at-
mospheric gasses in the primitive world—an important step in
Oparin's scenario, which would thus provide experimental sup-