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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 rot-
ting meat were assumed to be evidence of
life originating from inanimate materials.
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, invisible to the naked
eye. At the time Darwin wrote The Origin
of Species, the belief that bacteria could
come into existence from non-living mat-
As accepted also by the latest
ter was widely accepted in the world of
evolutionist theorists, the ori-
gin of life is still a great stum- science.
bling block for the theory of
evolution. However, five years after the publi-
cation of Darwin's book, Louis Pasteur
announced his results, after long studies and experiments, which disproved
spontaneous generation, a cornerstone of Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lec-
ture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine of spon-
taneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this
simple experiment." (Sidney Fox, Klaus Dose, Molecular Evo-
lution and The Origin of Life, W. H. Freeman and Company,
San Francisco, 1972, p. 4.)

For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolu-
tion resisted Pasteur's findings. 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.

Alexander Oparin's attempts to offer an
evolutionist explanation for the origin
of life ended in a great fiasco.