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Through his experiments, Louis Pasteur invalidated the idea that
“life can emerge from inanimate matter,” on which the theory of
evolution is based.

would originate from it after a while.

Similarly, maggots developing in rotting meat was assumed
to be evidence of spontaneous generation. However, 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 science.
However, five years after the publication of Darwin's book,

Louis Pasteur announced his results after long studies and ex-
periments, that disproved spontaneous generation, a corner-
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." 30

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