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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never
will the doctrine of spontaneous gen-
eration recover from the mortal
blow struck by this simple experi-
ment." 38
For a long time, advocates of
the theory of evolution resisted
these findings. However, as the de-

velopment of science unraveled the
complex structure of the cell of a living
being, the idea that life could come
Louis Pasteur
into being coincidentally faced an
even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the ori-
gin 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 fail-
ure, and Oparin had to make the following 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. 39
Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out exper-
iments 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 pri-

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