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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 With the experiments he carried out, Louis Pasteur
invalidated the claim that "inanimate
believed that mice would matter can create life," which constituted the
originate from it after a groundwork of the theory of evolution.
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
experiments, that disproved spontaneous generation, a cornerstone
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." 11
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted