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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." 1
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution
resisted these findings. However, as the development of sci-
ence unraveled the complex structure of the cell of a living
being, the idea that life could come into being coincidental-
ly faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century
The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the ori-
gin of life in the twentieth century was the renowned
Russian biologist Alexander Oparin. With various theses he
advanced in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a living cell
could originate by coincidence. These studies, however,
were doomed to failure, and Oparin had to make the fol-

lowing confession:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the
cell is perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of
the evolution of organisms. 2
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experi-
ments to solve this problem. The best known experiment was
carried out by the American chemist Stanley Miller in 1953.
Combining the gases he alleged to have existed in the pri-
mordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and