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A ADNAN OKTAR (HARUN YAHYA)

carried there by flies in the form of larvae, invisible to the naked
eye. At the time Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, the belief that bac-
teria could come into existence from non-living matter was widely ac-
cepted 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,
which 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.” (Sidney Fox,
Klaus Dose, Molecular Evolution and The Origin of Life, W. H. Freeman
and Company, San Francisco, 1972, p. 4.)
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted Pas-
teur’s 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 coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

FUTILE 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 ad-
vanced in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a living
cell could originate by chance. These studies,
however, were doomed to failure, and Oparin
had to make the following confession:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the ori-
gin of the cell is perhaps the most obscure point
in the whole study of the evolution of or-
ganisms. (Alexander I. Oparin, Origin of
Life, Dover Publications, New York, 1936,
1953 and 2003 (reprint), p. 196) Alexander Oparin