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THE MIRACLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Inconclusive Efforts in the
20th Century

The first evolutionist who took up the subject
of the origin of life in the 20th century was the re-
nowned Russian biologist Alexander Oparin. With
various theses he advanced in the 1930’s, he tried to
prove that the cell of a living being could originate
by coincidence. These studies, however, were Alexander Oparin’s
doomed to failure, and Oparin had to make the fol- attempts to bring an
evolutionist explana-
lowing confession: "Unfortunately, the origin of the tion to the origin of
cell remains a question which is actually the darkest life ended in a great
fiasco.
point of the entire evolution theory." 21
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry
out experiments 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) pre-
sent in the structure of proteins.
Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this exper-

iment, which was then presented as an important step in the name of ev-
olution, was invalid, the atmosphere used in the experiment having been
very different from real earth conditions. 22
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium
he used was unrealistic. 23
All the evolutionist efforts put forth throughout the 20th century to
explain the origin of life ended with failure. The geochemist 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 century: How did life
originate on Earth? 24