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Inconclusive Efforts in the 20th Century

The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin of
life in the 20th century was the renowned Russian biologist
Alexander Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the
1930's, he tried to prove that the cell of a living being could
originate by coincidence. These studies, however, were doomed
to failure, and Oparin had to make the following confession:
Unfortunately, the origin of the cell remains a question which is
actually the darkest point of the entire evolution theory. 11
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out
experiments to solve the problem of the origin of life. 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
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, the atmosphere used in the
experiment having been very different from real earth
conditions. 12
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 13
All the evolutionist efforts put forth throughout the 20th
century to explain the origin of life ended with failure. The
geochemist Jeffrey Bada from San Diego Scripps Institute
accepts 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 life originate on Earth? 14