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product of blind coincidences within the laws of nature,
without any plan or arrangement. According to the the-
ory, inanimate matter must have produced a living cell
as a result 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 rest-
ed on the assumption that living beings had a very sim-
ple structure. Since medieval times, spontaneous gen-
eration, 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
assumed to be evidence of spontaneous generation.
However, i 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 sci-
ence.
However, f five years after the publication of Darwin's
book, Louis Pasteur announced his results after long