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The Origin of Life
Evolutionists hold that living things spontaneously
formed themselves from inanimate matter. However,
this is a medieval superstition contradicting the main
DIVIDING laws of biology.
CELLS
The most
or many people, the question of "whether men descended from apes or not"
fundamental
rule of life is springs to mind when Darwin's theory is mentioned. Before coming to
the principle F that, however, there are numerous questions the evolutionary
that "life
theory needs to answer. The first question is how the first living
comes only
from life." A organism appeared on earth.
life form can Evolutionists answer this question by saying that the first organism
originate was a cell that emerged from inanimate matter by chance. According
only from
another life to the theory, at a time when the earth consisted of inanimate rocks,
form. soil, gases and so on, a living organism formed by chance through
the effects of wind, rain, and lightning. This evolutionary claim,
however, is contrary to one of the most fundamental rules of
biology: Life comes only from life, which means that inanimate
matter cannot generate life.
The belief that inanimate matter can produce life is actually a
medieval superstition. According to this theory, called "spontaneous
generation", it was believed that mice sprang naturally from wheat, or
maggots arose "spontaneously" from meat. At the time when Darwin put
forward his theory, the belief that microbes of their own accord formed
Louis Pasteur
themselves from inanimate matter was also very common.