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For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted Pas-
teur’s findings. However, as the development of science 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.

Futile Efforts in 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 Alexan-
der Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the 1930s, he tried to
prove that a living cell could originate by chance. These studies, how-
ever, 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. (Alexander I. Oparin, Origin of Life, Dover Publications, New York,
1936, 1953 and 2003 (reprint), p. 196)

Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experiments to

solve this problem. The best-known experiment was carried out by the
American chemist Stanley Miller in 1953. Combining those gases he
alleged to have existed in the primordial Earth’s atmosphere in an
experimental set-up, and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthe-
sized 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. (“New
Evidence on Evolution of Early Atmosphere and Life,” Bulletin of the

American Meteorological Society, vol. 63, November 1982, 1328-1330)