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The Deception of Evolution
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 sponta-
neously, but were carried there by flies in the form of larvae, in-
visible to the naked eye.
Even when Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, the belief that
bacteria could come into existence from non-living matter was
widely accepted in the world of science.
However, five years after the publication of Darwin's book,
Louis Pasteur announced his results after long studies and exper-
iments, that disproved spontaneous generation, a cornerstone of
Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864,
Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation
recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experi-
ment." 62
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted
these findings. However, as the development of science unrav-
eled the complex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea
that life could come into being coincidentally faced an even
greater impasse.

INCONCLUSIVE 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
Alexander Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the 1930s,
he tried to prove that a living cell could originate by coincidence.
These studies, however, were doomed to failure, and Oparin had
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