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Death of the Darwinist Dajjal System

Even 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 sci-
ence.
However, five years after the
publication of Darwin's book, Louis
Pasteur announced his results after
long studies and experiments, that
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 The French biologist
Louis Pasteur
mortal blow struck by this simple experi-
ment." 172
For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted these
findings. However, as the development of science unraveled the complex
structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come into be-
ing coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin 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 following confession:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is per-
haps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of or-
ganisms. 173
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experiments 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 primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-

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