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Harun Yahya

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
Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864,
Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation re-
cover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment." 78
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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I Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century
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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
evolution of organisms. 79
Evolutionist followers of Oparin
tried to carry out experiments to solve
this problem. The best known experi-
ment was carried out by the American
chemist Stanley Miller in 1953.
Combining the gases he alleged to
have existed in the primordial Earth's
atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and
adding energy to the mixture, Miller syn-
thesized several organic molecules (amino ac-
The Russian biologist
Alexander Oparin
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