Sentences with phrase «accept abiogenesis»
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In 1864, Louis Pasteur proved that point in one case, showing that spontaneous generation (that life could originate from nonliving matter, also called abiogenesis), though accepted by some in the scientific community (such as Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont about 200 years earlier, who also believed that the basic elements of the universe was just air and water), was untrue.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/
Trouble is, creationists likely wouldn't accept anything less than the creation of a modern cell as evidence of abiogenesis.
btw the Miller - Urey experiment showed that life can come from something non-living although it is not accepted as the actual abiogenesis explanation.