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The Evolution Deceit

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" "Life Comes from Life" "
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In his book, Darwin never referred to the origin of life. The
primitive understanding of science in his time rested on the
assumption that living beings had a very simple structure. Since
medieval times, spontaneous generation, the theory asserting 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, worms developing
in meat was assumed to be evidence of spontaneous generation.
However, only some time later was it 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 in the period 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 Darwin's book was published, the
discovery of Louis Pasteur disproved this belief, which constituted
the groundwork of evolution. Pasteur summarized the conclusion
he reached after time-consuming studies and experiments: "The
claim that inanimate matter can originate life is buried in history
for good." 2
Advocates of the theory of evolution resisted the findings of
Pasteur for a long time. However, as the development of science
unraveled the complex structure of the cell of a living being, the
idea that life could come into being coincidentally faced an even
greater impasse.

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