Page 45 - Once Upon a Time There Was Darwinism

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

As Charles Darwin was developing his the-
ory, the question of the origins of life was obfuscated by
debates like these. Many people believed that inanimate
matter could generate bacteria and other germs, if not visible

creatures like maggots. In 1860, the famous French chemist Louis
Pasteur disproved the age-old assertions of abiogenesis, though it
continued to hold its place in the minds of many.
Darwin almost never considered how the first cell came into
being. He never mentions this subject in his book The Origin of
Species published in 1859. Even after Pasteur's experiments posed a
major problem for him in this regard, he hardly dealt with the

Louis Pasteur's
scientific experi-
ments demol-
ished the
dogma that life
could be born
out of inanimate
matter. Thus the
very first link in the il-
lusory evolutionary chain
that Darwinism pro-
posed came to a
dead end.

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