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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.
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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 renowned 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 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 organisms." 18
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)
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 conditions. 19
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic. 20
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? 21