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To: furball4paws
By "Abiogenesis" do you mean "spontaneous generation" or something less dramatic ~ like little baby steps for billions of years that ultimately end up giving us life as we know it?

There are those who believe, as did Velikovsky, that things as complex as houseflies can simply pop into existence given the right conditions. The same term applies.

Must be careful with this term since it's not necessarily linked to evolution in many of its manifestations.

243 posted on 02/25/2006 7:21:27 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: muawiyah

It's why we use "Abiogenesis" - life arising from non-life. Whether it's a pop! or many baby steps (more likely) is the same. It is only related to evolution in that successful Abiogenesis gives something for evolution to operate on. The Pasteur/Spontaneous Generation aspect is unrelated to either Abiogenesis or Evolution.


250 posted on 02/25/2006 7:31:40 PM PST by furball4paws (Awful Offal)
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To: muawiyah

My original question still stands.


252 posted on 02/25/2006 7:33:31 PM PST by furball4paws (Awful Offal)
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