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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

The First Insurmountable Step:
The Origin of Life

The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved from a
single living cell that emerged on Earth 3.8 billion years ago, supposed to
have happened as a result of coincidences. How a single cell could gen-
erate millions of complex living species and, if such an evolution really
occurred, why traces of it cannot be observed in the fossil record are some
of the questions that the theory cannot answer. However, first and fore-
most, we need to ask: How did this "first cell" originate?
Since the theory of evolution ignorantly denies Creation, it main-
tains that the "first cell" originated as a product of blind coincidences
within the laws of nature, without any plan or arrangement. According to
the theory, inanimate matter must have produced a living cell as a result of
coincidences. Such a claim, however, is inconsistent with the most unassail-
able 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 rested on the assump-
tion that living beings had a very simple
structure. Since medieval times, spon-
taneous generation, 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 The French biologist
Louis Pasteur
originate from it after a while.

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