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Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) in the Qur’an, the Torah,
the Psalms and the Gospel

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 as-
sumed to be evidence of spontaneous generation. However,
it was later understood 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 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, Louis Pasteur announced his results after long studies
and experiments, 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 recover from the mortal blow
struck by this simple experiment." 1
For a long time, advocates
of the theory of evolution re-
sisted these findings. How-
ever, 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 im-
passe.
The French biologist Louis
Pasteur

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