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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, maggots develop-
ing in rotting meat were assumed
to be evidence of life originating
from inanimate materials. Howev-
er, it was later understood that
As accepted also by the latest
evolutionist theorists, the origin worms did not appear on meat
of life is still a great stumbling
block for the theory of evolution. spontaneously, but were carried
there by flies in the form of lar-
vae, invisible to the naked eye. At the time 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.” (Sid-
ney Fox, Klaus Dose, Molecular Evolution and The Origin
of Life, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco,
1972, p. 4.)

Alexander Oparin's attempts to offer an
evolutionist explanation for the origin of
life ended in a great fiasco.