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 con-
fession:
Unfortunately, however, the prob-
lem of the origin of the cell is per-
haps the most obscure point in the
whole study of the evolution of or-
ganisms.
45
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 the gases he alleged to have existed in the pri-
mordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding en-
ergy 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 ex-
periment was verydifferent from the real Earth conditions.
46
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere
medium he used was unrealistic.
47
All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century
to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey
Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an ar-
ticle 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.
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