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spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck
by this simple experiment." 45
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution re-

sisted these findings. However, as the development of science
unraveled the complex structure of the cell of a living being,
the idea that life could come into being coincidentally faced an
even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts In The Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin
of life in the twentieth century was the renowned Russian bi-
ologist 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 confession:

Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is
perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolu-
tion of organisms. 46
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experi-

ments 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 primor-

dial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding
energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic mol-
ecules (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, for the atmosphere