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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 coincidence. These studies, howev-
er, were doomed to failure, and Oparin had to make the following con-
fession:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is per-
haps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of
organisms. 74
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 atmosphere in an
experiment set-up, and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthe-
sized several organic molecules (amino acids) present in the structure of
proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this exper-
iment, which was then presented as an important step in the name of
evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in the experiment
was very different from the real Earth conditions. 75
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic. 76
All the evolutionists' efforts
throughout the twentieth century to

Russian biologist
Alexander Oparin

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