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ing experiments were conducted to prove this theory. Some wheat was
placed on a dirty piece of cloth, and it was believed that mice would origi-
nate 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 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

Through his experiments, Louis Pasteur invalidated
the idea that “life can emerge from inanimate mat-
ter,” on which the theory of evolution is based.