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What Kind of Yemen?

Since the theory of evolution ignorantly denies Creation, it main-
tains that the "first cell" originated as a product of blind coincidences
within the laws of nature, without any plan or arrangement. According
to the theory, inanimate matter must have produced a living cell as a
result of coincidences. Such a claim, however, is inconsistent with the
most unassailable rules of biology.

"Life comes from life"

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, spon-
taneous generation, which asserts that non-living materials came
together to form living organisms, had been widely accepted. 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, maggots developing in rotting meat was assumed to be
evidence of spontaneous generation. However, it was later under-
stood that worms did not appear on meat spontaneously, but were
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 bac-
teria could come into existence from non-living matter 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, that disproved spontaneous generation, a cornerstone of Dar-
win'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." (Sidney Fox,
Klaus Dose, Molecular Evolution and The Origin of Life, W. H. Freeman
and Company, San Francisco, 1972, p. 4.)
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.

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