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However, five years after the publi-
cation of Darwin's book, Louis Pasteur
announced his results after long studies
and experiments, that disproved sponta-
neous 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." 1
For a long time, advocates of the theo- Louis Pasteur
ry of evolution resisted these 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.

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
Alexander 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 following confession:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is
perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evo-
lution of organisms. 2
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experiments

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