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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 coin-
cidence. These studies, however, 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
Ale xan der Opa rin
of the evolution of organisms. 141
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 atmos-
phere in an experiment set-up, and adding en-
ergy to the mixture, Miller synthesized sev-
eral organic molecules (amino acids) pre-
sent in the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed be-
fore it was revealed that this experi-
ment, which was then presented as an
important step in the name of evolu-
tion, was invalid, for the atmosphere
used in the experiment was very different
from the real Earth conditions. 142
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