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Darwinist Propaganda Techniques

Through his experiments, Louis Pasteur in-
validated the idea that “life can emerge from
inanimate matter,” which represents the foun-
dation of the theory of evolution.

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 bacte-
ria could come into existence from
non-living matter was widely accepted
in the world of science.
However, five years after the publi-
cation of Darwin's book, Louis Pasteur an-
nounced his results after long studies and
experiments, 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 re-
cover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment." 5
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted these
findings. However, as the development of science unraveled the com-
plex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come
into being coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of 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 Alexan-
der 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 to make the fol-
lowing confession:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is per-
haps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of
organisms. 6

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