[GourmetDan]

"Let's start with the once commonly accepted idea that maggots spontaneously generated from rotten meat."

Ah, the misrepresentation starts immediately.

That was an naturalistic idea, along with the naturalistic idea that garbage spontaneously generated rats.

It's where the idea of abiogenesis came from.

[calex59]

and you think that this is any different than scientist saying “suddenly there was life”!. How do you justify that?