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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 re-
sult of coincidences. Such a claim, however, is inconsistent
with the most unassailable 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 assumption that living beings had a very simple struc-
ture. Since medieval times, spontaneous generation, which
asserts that non-living materials came together to form liv-
ing organisms, had been widely accepted. It was commonly
believed that insects came into being from food leftovers,
and mice from wheat. Interesting experiments were con-
ducted to prove this theory. Some wheat was placed on a
dirty piece of cloth, and it was believed that mice would
originate from it after a while.
Similarly, maggots developing in rotting meat was as-
sumed 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 be-
lief 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 stud-
ies and experiments, that disproved spontaneous genera-
tion, a cornerstone of Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lec-
ture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never will the
doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mor-
tal blow struck by this simple experiment." 11

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