(January 2, 2019 at 6:42 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Is he honestly trying to compare Spontaneous generation to Abiogenisis(January 1, 2019 at 7:19 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Sounds like you belong to some weirdo cult that denies science. Biogenesis is well established.
From study.com
Where do kittens come from? What about baby birds? No, these aren't philosophical questions. Kittens come from cats, and baby birds come from bird eggs. Along the same lines, microorganisms, or living things that are too small to see with the naked eye, come from other microorganisms. That seems pretty obvious, right? Well, it hasn't always been that way.
In fact, the origin of microorganisms was a major debate following their discovery in the 1670s by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. It wasn't until the 1850s to 1860s, nearly 200 years later, that scientists came up with the theory that all living organisms have to come from other living organisms. This theory is called biogenesis because bio means 'life' and genesis means 'beginning.'
From Biology Online
The popular notion used to be was the spontaneous generation. People, including prominent scientific thinkers, such as Aristotle, believed that mice could arise from stored grain and in the absence of any biological parent. Aristotle wrote on his book, History of Animals, that some animals could spring from their parent animals and others could grow spontaneously and not from their same type. Accordingly, the animal could come from putrefying earth or vegetable matter. ¹
The principle of spontaneous generation states that inanimate objects could produce living things. This is sometimes referred to as abiogenesis. This theory is no longer widely supported to this day. With the advent of laboratory tools and microbial techniques, scientific experiments such as that of Louis Pasteur proved that living things could not be generated spontaneously from inanimate object. Only living things are capable of reproducing another life. Thus, the theory of spontaneous generation became obsolete and the theory of biogenesis became more widely accepted.
Well done! You now know the difference between the non-existent 'Law of Biogenesis' and the well-established 'Theory of Biogenesis'.
Please consider this a personal growth moment.
Boru
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