[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Test: Who said this?

It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are present, which could ever have been present. But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

[Michael_Michaelangelo]

Gone for the day. The golf course calls.

[Dane]

It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are present, which could ever have been present. But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

Darwin or a Darwinite?

[CarolinaGuitarman]

Darwin said it. He was not talking about the ToE though. It was in a letter to the botanist Joseph Hooker in 1871. He was speculating to a friend about a field of science outside of the ToE. You will find no such quotes in his published works.

Can't you do better than this?