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Inconclusive Efforts in the Twentieth 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."270
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.271
After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium he used was unrealistic.272
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?273
The Complex Structure of Life
The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a big impasse about the origin of life
is that even the living organisms deemed the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The cell of a living
being is more complex than all of the technological products produced by man. Today, even in the most
developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing inorganic materials
together.
The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in quantity to be explained away by
coincidences. The probability of proteins, the building blocks of cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is 1 in
10950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability smaller than 1 over
1050 is practically considered to be impossible.
The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of the cell and which stores genetic information, is
an incredible databank. It is calculated that if the information coded in DNA were written down, this would
make a giant library consisting of 900 volumes of encyclopaedias of 500 pages each.
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