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Introduction:

The True

Origin Of Life

Back in the 19 century, the cell could be examined only
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under a light microscope, and so scientists saw the fundamental

unit of life as little more than a circular blot. Some imagined
that the interior of the cell was filled with only a plasma-like flu-
id; others that it contained a jelly-like substance. Based on the
images seen under the light microscope—widely used at the
time, but now regarded as rather primitive compared with pre-
sent-day instruments—19 -century scientists imagined the cell
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to be a very simple structure, and proposed a theory that the cell
had developed spontaneously and by chance.
Charles Darwin first publically brought up the theory of
evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. He claimed
that under the conditions on the so-called primordial Earth,
blind coincidence combined unconscious and inanimate atoms,
gave rise to a cell possessed of all the many features necessary