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Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

ry. In his triumphal lecture at the
Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said:

"Never will the doctrine of spon-
taneous generation recover from
the mortal blow struck by this
simple experiment." (Sidney Fox,
Klaus Dose, Molecular Evolution
and The Origin of Life, W. H. Free-
man and Company, San Francis-
co, 1972, p. 4.)
For a long time, advocates
of the theory of evolution resist-
ed these findings. However, as

As accepted also by the the development of science un-
latest evolutionist theo- raveled the complex structure of
rists, the origin of life is
still a great stumbling the cell of a living being, the idea that life
block for the theory of could come into being coincidentally faced
evolution.
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 Alexan-
der 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.
(Alexander I. Oparin, Origin of Life, Dover Publications, New York,
1936, 1953 (reprint), p. 196.)

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