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flies in the form of larvae, invisi-
ble to the naked eye.
Even when Darwin wrote The
Origin of Species, the belief that
bacteria 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,
Alexander Oparin
Louis Pasteur announced his re-
sults after long studies and experi-
ments, that disproved spontaneous generation, a corner-
stone 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." 18
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution re-
sisted these findings. However, as the development of sci-
ence 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 ori-
gin 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