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the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow
struck by this simple experiment." 1
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted 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 biologist Alexander Oparin.
With various theses he advanced in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a liv-
ing 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 evolution of organ-
isms. 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 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 ex-
periment, which was then presented as an important step in the
name of evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in the ex-
periment was very different from the real Earth
conditions. 3
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium he
used was unrealistic. 4
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century to ex-

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