[microgood]

Spontaneous generation was a claim about how microorganisms and many insects come to be, instantaneously, and that this happens all the time even today. It has nothing to do with abiogenesis, which tries to show how the chemical precursors to life could have formed and come together to form the first self-replicating organism.

Thanks. I looked it up and Wikipedia calls spontaneous generation Aristotelean Abiogenesis and is about generation from decaying matter. The more modern version relates to generation from nonliving matter or matter that no longer exists (the second part sounds kind of like a dodge or is at least unprovable).

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"The more modern version relates to generation from nonliving matter or matter that no longer exists (the second part sounds kind of like a dodge or is at least unprovable)."

Not matter that no longer exists; conditions that no longer exist. Even if organic molecules join together now, they will almost certainly become food for some microorganism that already exists. This wasn't the case 4 billion years ago.