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The Evolution Deceit

generation, the theory assert-
ing that non-living materials
came together to form living
organisms, had been widely
accepted. It was commonly be-
lieved 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 believed that

mice would originate from it
Louis Pasteur invalidated the claim that
after a while. "inanimate matter can create life", which
Similarly, worms develop- constituted the groundwork of the theory of
evolution, with the experiments he carried
ing in meat was assumed to be
out.
evidence of spontaneous gener-
ation. However, only some time later was it 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 in the period 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 Darwin’s book was published, the discov-
ery of Louis Pasteur disproved this belief, which constituted the ground-
work of evolution. Pasteur summarized the conclusion he reached after
time-consuming studies and experiments: "The claim that inanimate matter
can originate life is buried in history for good." 20
Advocates of the theory of evolution resisted the findings of Pasteur
for a long time. However, as the development of science unraveled the

complex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come
into being coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.