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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
Ale xan der Opa rin could originate by coincidence.
These studies, however, were
doomed to failure, and Oparin had to make the following con-
fession:
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. 74
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 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
conditions. 75
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 76

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