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stud ies and exper i ments, that dis proved spon ta ne ous
gen er a tion, a cor ner stone of Darwin's the o ry. In his tri -
um phal lec ture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said:
"Never will the doc trine of spon ta ne ous gen er a tion
recov er from the mor tal blow struck by this sim ple
exper i ment." 1
For a long time, advo cates of the the o ry of evo lu tion
resist ed these find ings. However, as the devel op ment
of sci ence unrav eled the com plex struc ture of the cell
of a liv ing being, the idea that life could come into being
coin ci den tal ly faced an even great er impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century
The first evo lu tion ist who took up the sub ject of the
ori gin of life in the twen ti eth cen tu ry was the renowned
Russian biol o gist Alexander Oparin. With var i ous the -
ses he advanced in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a
liv ing cell could orig i nate by coin ci dence. These stud -
ies, how e ver, were doomed to fail ure, and Oparin had
to make the fol low ing con fes sion:
Unfortunately, how e ver, the prob lem of the ori gin of
the cell is per haps the most obscure point in the whole
study of the evo lu tion of organ isms. 2
Evolutionist fol low ers of Oparin tried to carry out
exper i ments to solve this prob lem. The best known
exper i ment was car ried out by the American chem ist
Stanley Miller in 1953. Combining the gases he alleged

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