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uct of blind coincidences within the laws of nature, with-
out any plan or arrangement. According to the theory,

inanimate matter must have produced a living cell as a re-
sult of coincidences. Such a claim, however, is inconsistent
with the most unassailable rules of biology.

"Life Comes From Life"
In his book, Darwin never referred to the origin of life.
The primitive understanding of science in his time rested
on the assumption that living beings had a very simple
structure. Since medieval times, spontaneous generation,
which asserts that non-living materials came together to
form living organisms, had been widely accepted. It was
commonly believed that insects came into being from food
leftovers, and mice from wheat. Interesting experiments
were conducted to prove this theory. Some wheat was
placed on a dirty piece of cloth, and it was believed that
mice would originate from it after a while.
Similarly, maggots developing in rotting meat was as-
sumed to be evidence 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 be-
lief 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