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tains that the "first cell" originated as a product of blind coincidences
within the laws of nature, without any plan or arrangement. According
to the theory, inanimate matter must have produced a living cell as a re-
sult of coincidences. Such a claim, however, is inconsistent with the most
unassailable rules of biology.

"Life Comes From Life"
In his book, Darwin never referred to the origin of life. The primi-
tive understanding of science in his time rested on the assumption that
living beings had a very simple structure. Since medieval times, sponta-
neous generation, which asserts that non-living materials came together
to form living organisms, had been widely accepted. It was commonly
believed that insects came into being from food leftovers, and mice from
wheat. Interesting experiments were conducted to prove this theory.
Some wheat was placed on a dirty piece of cloth, and it was believed that
mice would originate from it after a while.
Similarly, maggots developing in rotting meat was assumed to be
evidence of spontaneous generation. However, it was later understood
that worms did not appear on meat
spontaneously, but were carried
there by flies in the form of larvae,
invisible to the naked eye.
Even when Darwin wrote The
Origin of Species, the belief that bac-
teria could come into existence from
non-living matter was widely ac-
cepted in the world of science.
However, five years after the
publication of Darwin's book,
Louis Pasteur announced his re-
sults after long studies and experi-
ments, that disproved spontaneous
generation, a cornerstone of
Alexander Oparin's
attempts to offer an Darwin's theory. In his triumphal
evolutionist explanation for the ori- lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864,
gin of life
ended in a great fiasco. Pasteur said: "Never will the doc-