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theory. In his triumphal lec-
ture at the Sorbonne in 1864,
Pasteur said: "Never will the
doctrine of spontaneous gen-
eration recover from the
mortal blow struck by this
simple experiment." 19
For a long time, advocates
of the theory of evolution
resisted these findings.
French biologist
However, as the development
Louis Pasteur
of science unraveled the com-
plex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that
life could come into being coincidentally faced an even
greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts
In 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:
Russian biologist
Unfortunately, however, Alexander Oparin