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Louis Pasteur

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."193
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution 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 coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of 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