Sentences with phrase «spontaneous generation»

He didn't close the case on all claims of spontaneous generation, but his work was a major first step toward eliminating received dogma in biology and replacing it with experiment and reason.

Galen believed these parasites were formed from spontaneous generation in putrefied matter under the effect of heat.

What if life started by spontaneous generation?

Francesco Redi disproved spontaneous generation in the 17th century with one of the first controlled scientific experiments.

Candice Lin, «Recipe for Spontaneous Generation: Baby Mice», 2015.

In the biological sciences there was once a theory (now discredited) of spontaneous generation where rats could be spontaneously generated out of filth.

No, you're confusing the medieval theory of spontaneous generation with evolution, which tends to indicate you were taught in a school that teaches «alternate theories.»

Remember spontaneous generation?

It'd be like discounting the modern understanding of reproduction by citing middle - age beliefs regarding spontaneous generation of maggots and flies from dead meat.

In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation.

Several accounts point to the influence of Byron's physician, Polidori (who later poisoned himself with prussic acid), and his discussions of experiments on spontaneous generation by Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles.

From this perspective we can see why Aristotle accepted spontaneous generation without anxiety: putrefying matter, already seething with change, could accidentally fall into self - perpetuating patterns of activity and thus spin off organisms — maggots in corpses or oysters in mud.

Two centuries later, Louis Pasteur proved that spontaneous generation doesn't explain bacterial growth, either.

Alexander Redi actually disproved spontaneous generation two centuries prior to Pasture, but it took «science» two centuries to accept it.

It is true that thunderstorms arise by spontaneous generation, and since they are incapable of sexual reproduction, natural selection can only act upon them by selecting individuals and not by acting upon the whole species.

Even though Leeuwenhoek could not disprove the notion of spontaneous generation of life, his findings showed that he was a creative genius.

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.

Spontaneous Generation, Static Universe, Expanding Earth, Contracting Universe, Cold Fusion... what do they have in common?

i haven't read (nor can i claim to understand) his proof, but his position is that spontaneous generation is possible.

@Primewonk Now can I bring in the Greek's concept of spontaneous generation?

Billions of years can hardly be called «spontaneous generation».

It comes from the same line of thinking that brought us Spontaneous Generation, but it is still a pretty good guess.

Until the student of origins can produce repeated examples of spontaneous generation (living organisms created entirely from non-living matter) followed by an evolutionary process, his speculations remain in the realm of philosophy and outside the strict standards of modern science.

The creationist has the laws of thermodynamics, the absence of any known case of spontaneous generation, and a fossil record «filled» with missing links.

Just like the theory of Spontaneous Generation was disproved.

I think one can say that in biology there are no genuinely biological postulates of impotence except that spontaneous generation is impossible.

Belief in a form of spontaneous generation can be traced back for centuries.

Put his The Riddle of the Universe alongside Adams's masterwork and you can see how neatly Haeckel solves Adams's problem about unity by getting rid of free will, religion, and the immortality of the soul (that it is immortal «is the highest point of superstition») and by his theory of spontaneous generation (his zoological Big Bang that needs no Banger).

The best scientists of their day at one time believed that the earth was flat, that bleeding people cured illness, that spontaneous generation was a fact (after all, they saw it with their own eyes) and other such nonsense.

Just because one or more books have been written or images of a god repeatedly carved on pyramid walls does not prove of that god's existence any more than the writings of various people in various books proved the validity of «spontaneous generation» or that the earth is the center of the universe.

How about «spontaneous generation» if no God was needed?

He also empirically disproved the widely held hypothesis of spontaneous generation.

«We want to go one step forward to explain the spontaneous generation of these current sheets,» said Sanjay Kumar, a member of the research team.

Ideally, it should involve one or more of the following: virgin birth, spontaneous generation, perpetual motion, cold fusion, or adequate funding.

Spontaneous generation was widely believed by most people at the time.

His descriptions and enumeration of microbes seemed to support the idea of spontaneous generation of life (in pepper infusions no less!)

Aristotle was the first to suggest the theory of spontaneous generation: that life could arise from «putrefying earth or vegetable matter,» or from the «insides of animals.»

In the zirconate, this spontaneous generation of secondary defects in response to the primary defect is part of the self - healing process by which the radiation energy is dissipated and volume expansion is avoided.

Perhaps we should remember the experiments of Francesco Redi, Lazzaro Spallanzani, and Louis Pasteur — basic biological experiments that put to rest the theory of spontaneous generation, the belief that life had arisen spontaneously from dead matter (as, for instance, maggots from rotting meat and mice from bundles of old clothes)-- and not make the same mistake for the origin of the universe itself.

If «Lucy» wasn't alone, and since there is no evidence of spontaneous generation she was not alone, who else was in her neighborhood?

Mitochondrial biogenesis is the ability to promote the spontaneous generation of new mitochondria within aging cells, and it's the closest thing yet discovered to a «fountain of youth» for human beings.