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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

to have exist ed in the pri mor di al Earth's atmos phere in
an exper i ment set-up, and add ing ener gy to the mix -
ture, Miller syn the sized sev er al organ ic mol e cu les
(amino acids) present in the struc ture of pro teins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed
that this exper i ment, which was then pre sent ed as an
impor tant step in the name of evo lu tion, was invalid,
for the atmos phere used in the exper i ment was very
dif fer ent from the real Earth con di tions. 3
After a long silence, Miller con fessed that the atmos -
phere medi um he used was unre al is tic. 4
All the evo lu tion ists' efforts through out the twen ti -
eth cen tu ry to explain the ori gin of life ended in fail ure.
The geo chem ist Jeffrey Bada, from the San Diego
Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an arti cle pub lished
in Earth mag a zine in 1998:
Today as we leave the twen ti eth cen tu ry, we still face
the big gest unsolved prob lem that we had when we
entered the twen ti eth cen tu ry: How did life orig i nate
on Earth? 5

The Complex Structure of Life
The pri ma ry rea son why the the o ry of evo lu tion ended
up in such a great impasse regard ing the ori gin of life is
that even those liv ing organ isms deemed to be the sim -
plest have incred i bly com plex struc tures. The cell of a
liv ing thing is more com plex than all of our man-made

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