Quote:In 1859, Louis Pasteur entered a contest sponsored by The French Academy of Sciences to examine the now hotly contested spontaneous generation [abiogenesis] controversy, the same year as the publication of The Origin of Species. In the contest, Pasteur decisively undermined the concept of spontaneous generation [abiogenesis]."
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This test had nothing to do with scientifically discovered gap non-life to life a few billion years ago. This was an actual test of life being created millions of times every day as in feces creates maggots.