Is Naturalistic Biogenesis Scientific?
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION The theory of life from non-living things is the error of “spontaneous generation,” Spontaneous generation was called abiogensis and is now referred by evolutionists as biopoiesis. “Biogenesis is a term in biology that is derived from two Greek words meaning life and birth. According to the theory of biogenesis, living things decended only from nonliving things. They cannot develope spontaneously from nonliving materials. Until comparatively recent times, scientists believed that certain tiny forms of life, such as bacteria, arose spontaneously from non-living substances.” *Biogenesis, “World Book Encyclopedia, p. B-242 (1972 edition). “Pasteur’s demonstration apparently laid the theory of spontaneous generation to rest permanently. All this left a germ of embarrassment for scientists. How had life originated after all, if not through divine creation or through spontaneous generation?..”They [today’s scientists] are back to spontaneous generation, but with a diff
