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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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
Ale xan der Opa rin
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. 65
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experi-
ments to solve this problem. The best known experiment was car-
ried 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 synthesized several organic molecules
(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 used
in the experiment was very different from the real Earth condi-
tions. 66
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 67
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth cen-

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