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The Misconception of Evolution

any kind of supernatural intervention, it maintains that the "first cell"
originated coincidentally within the laws of nature, without any
design, plan, or arrangement. According to the theory, inanimate
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matter must have produced a living cell as a result of coincidences.
This, however, is a claim inconsistent with even 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 structure. Since
medieval times, spontaneous generation, the theory asserting that
non-living 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 believed that mice would
originate from it after a while.
Similarly, worms developing in meat was assumed to be evidence
of spontaneous generation. 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
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, which 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." 17
Advocates of the theory of evolution resisted the findings of
Pasteur for a long time. However, as the development of science