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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 developing in rotting meat was assumed to be
evidence of spontaneous generation. However, it was later 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 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, 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 mortal blow struck
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by this simple experiment."
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 being
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 Ale xan der Opa rin

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