Page 47 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

labor that would last for more than a century.
This hopeless effort rested on an error defended
for centuries, and which also misled Darwin, that life is of
pure chance and natural law.

Since that time, more than a century has passed, and thou-
sands of scientists have tried to explain the origins of life in terms
of evolution. Two scientists who cleared a new path in this search
were Alexander Oparin and J.B.S. Haldane—one Russian, the
other English, but both Marxists. They advanced the theory known
as "chemical evolution," and proposed, as Darwin had dreamed of
doing, that molecules—the raw material of life—could, with the
addition of energy, evolve spontaneously and form a living cell.
In the middle of the 20th century, Oparin's and Haldane's

theory gained ground because the true complexity of life wasn't
yet understood. And a young chemist by the name of Stanley
Miller gave apparent scientific support for the "chemical evolu-
tion" thesis.

J. B. S. Haldane
45 Alexander Oparin