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inate 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." 35
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experi-
ments to solve the problem of the origin of life. The best known
of these experiments was carried out by 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, the atmosphere used in the
experiment having been very different from real earth condi-
tions. 36
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 37
All the evolutionist efforts put forth throughout the twentieth
century to explain the origin of life ended with failure. The geo-
chemist Jeffrey Bada from San Diego Scripps Institute accepts
this fact in an article published in Earth Magazine in 1998:

Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest
unsolved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth cen-
tury: How did life originate on Earth? 38

The Complex Structure of Life
The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in
such a big impasse about the origin of life is that even the living
organisms deemed the simplest have incredibly complex struc-
tures. The cell of a living being is more complex than all of the