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coincidentally within the laws of nature, without any design, plan or
arrangement. According to the theory, inanimate matter must have
produced a living cell as a result of coincidences. Such a claim, how-
ever, 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
primitive understanding of science in his time rested on the assump-
tion that living beings had a very simple structure. Since medieval
times, spontaneous generation, which asserts that non-living materi-
als came together to form living organisms, had been widely accept-
ed. It was commonly believed that insects came into being from food
leftovers, and mice from wheat. Interesting experiments were con-
ducted 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 under-
stood 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 bacteria could come
into existence from non-living matter was

widely accepted in the world of science.
However, five years after the publica-
tion of Darwin's book, Louis Pasteur an-
nounced his results after long studies and
Louis Pasteur experiments, that disproved spontaneous