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The Evolution Deception

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In his book, Darwin never referred to the origin of life. The prim-
itive 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 mate-
rials came together to form living organisms, had been widely ac-
cepted. 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 evi-
dence of spontaneous generation. However, only some time later
was it understood that worms did not appear on meat sponta-
neously, but were carried there by flies in the form of larvae, invisi-
ble 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 mat-
ter 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 experi-
ments, which 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 experiment." 46
Advocates of the theory of evolution resisted the findings of
Pasteur for a long time. However, as the development of science un-
raveled the complex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea
that life could come into being coincidentally faced an even greater
impasse.