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book, Louis Pasteur an-
nounced his results after
long studies and experi-
ments, that disproved spon-
taneous generation, a corner-
stone of Darwin's theory. In
his triumphal lecture at the
Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur
said: "Never will the doctrine Lou is Pas te ur
of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow
struck by this simple experiment." 166
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution
resisted these findings. However, as the development of sci-
ence unraveled the complex structure of the cell of a living
being, the idea that life could come into being coinciden-
tally 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 Oparin. With various theses he
advanced in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a living cell
could originate by coincidence. These studies, however,
were doomed to failure, and Oparin had to make the fol-
lowing confession:
