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Harun Yahya

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The French biologist Louis Pasteur

plex structure of the cell of a living
being, the idea that life could come
into being coincidentally faced an
even greater impasse.

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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 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. 247
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to
carry out experiments to solve this prob-
lem. 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 atmos-
phere 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 be-
Russian biologist Alexander Oparin