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Inconclusive Efforts in the 20th Century
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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, the origin of the cell remains a question which is actually the darkest point of the entire evolution theory. 11 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. 12 After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium he used was unrealistic. 13 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? 14 Directory: mi2 mi2 -> Vocabulary section: Epic poem, polis, acropolis, democracy, oligarchy, direct democracy Questions mi2 -> Social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer, Ethics and Morals Social Darwinism Download 154.61 Kb. Share with your friends:
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