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within the laws of nature, without any design, 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 primitive
understanding of science in his time rested on the assumption that living
beings had a very simple structure. Since medieval times, spontaneous
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 evi-
dence 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 pub-
lication of Darwin's book, Louis
Pasteur announced his results after
long studies and experiments, that dis-
proved spontaneous generation, a cor-
nerstone of Darwin's theory. In his
triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864,
Louis Pasteur Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine

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