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in the form of larvae, invisible to the
naked eye. At the time 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 science.

However, five years after
the publication of Darwin’s
book, Louis Pasteur announced
his results, after long studies and
experiments, which disproved
French biologist
spontaneous generation, a corner- Louis Pasteur
stone 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.” (Sidney Fox,
Klaus Dose, Molecular Evolution and The Origin of Life, W. H.
Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1972, p. 4)
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resist-
ed Pasteur’s 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.

FUTILE EFFORTS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin
of life in the twentieth century was the renowned Russian biol-
ogist Alexander Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the
1930s, he tried to prove that a living cell could originate by
chance. These studies, however, were doomed to failure, and
Oparin had to make the following confession: