Sentences with phrase «spontaneous generation of life»

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

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

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And the chances of spontaneous generation from dissolved rocks (chemical life) is 1 in 10 ^ 7800.

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.

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.

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.»

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.