[PatrickHenry]

For background, here's a link to a thread from 2003 on the Miller Experiment:
Prebiotic Soup--Revisiting the Miller Experiment [biogenesis].

[PatrickHenry]

Here's a repeat post from that earlier thread, which is just as appropriate now as then:

Someone is almost sure to drop in and claim that Louis Pasteur "proved" that life can't be created from non-living material. This is a mis-understanding of the ancient term spontaneous generation. This website: The Slow Death of Spontaneous Generation, explains what Pasteur actually did: he demonstrated that meat spoiled because of airborn microbes, not "spontaneously" by itself.