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"Life Comes From Life"

In his book, Darwin never referred to the origin of life. That is because
the primitive understanding of science in his time rested on the assumption
that living beings had a very simple structure. Since medieval times, sponta-
neous generation, which asserts that non-living materials came together to
form living organisms, had been widely accepted. In that period, it was com-
monly believed that insects came into being
from food leftovers, and mice from wheat. In-

teresting 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, 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
As accepted also by the latest
in the form of larvae, invisible to the
evolutionist theorists, the origin
of life is still a great stumbling naked eye. At the time Dar-
block for the theory of evolution.
win wrote The Origin of
Species, the belief that bacteria could come into existence from
non-living matter was widely accepted in the world of sci-

ence.
However, five years after the publication of Darwin's
book, Louis Pasteur announced his results, after long

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