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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

discoveries of modern science.
A comparison of the scientific facts relevant to the origins of life and
Masonic beliefs about it will be enough to let us form a conclusion as to
this fact.

THE MASONIC THEORY OF
THE ORIGINS OF LIFE
As we stated at the beginning, the theory of evolution rests on the
claim that living things were not created, but arose and developed due to
chance and natural laws. In order to test this theory scientifically, it is nec-
essary to look at every stage of this supposed process, and to examine
whether or not such a process occurred in the past and whether such a
process could have been possible.
The first step in this process is a hypothetical condition within which

lifeless matter could engender a living organism.
Before looking at this condition, we must recall a law that has been
recognized in biology since the time of Pasteur: "Life comes from life."
That is, a living organism can be generated only from another living or-
ganism. For example, mammals are born from their mothers. In many
other species of animals the young are born from eggs that had been laid
by the mothers. Plants grow out of seeds. Single-cell organisms such as

bacteria divide and multiply.
Nothing has ever been observed to the contrary. Throughout the his-
tory of the world no one has ever witnessed lifeless matter giving birth to
a living being. Of course, there were those in Ancient Egypt, Greece and
the Middle Ages who thought they had observed such an outcome; the
Egyptians believed that frogs sprang from the mud of the Nile, a belief
also sustained by Ancient Greek philosophers, such as Aristotle. In the
Middle Ages it was believed that mice were begotten from the wheat of
granaries. However, all these beliefs proved to be out of ignorance, and fi-

nally, in his famous experiments in the 1860's, Pasteur proved that even

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