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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

One example of evolutionists' at-
tempts to account for the origin
of life is the Miller experiment. It
was gradually realized that this
experiment, initially heralded as
a major advance on behalf of the
theory of evolution, was invalid,
and Miller was even forced to ad-
mit that very fact himself.

For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted these
findings. However, as the development of science unraveled the com-
plex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come
into being coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

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 failure, and Oparin had to make the following confes-
sion:
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. 2

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 al-

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