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SIGNS OF THE END TIMES IN SURAT AL-KAHF

in the world of science.
However, five years
after the publication of
Darwin's book, Louis
Pasteur announced his re-
sults after long studies and
experiments, that disproved
spontaneous generation, a
cornerstone of Darwin's
theory. In his triumphal lec-
ture at the Sorbonne in 1864,
Pasteur said: "Never will
the doctrine of spontaneous
generation recover from the
mortal blow struck by this
simple experiment." 8
Louis Pasteur destroyed the belief that life
For a long time, advo-
could be created from inanimate substances.
cates of the theory of evolu-
tion resisted these findings.
However, as the development of science unraveled the complex structure
of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come into being coinci-
dentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts in the Twentieth
Century

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 confes-
sion:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is perhaps the

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