Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: gore3000
... said that Pasteur's experiment - the only scientifically acceptable test made of abiogenesis - does not count.

You are so determined to remain in the dark. Pasteur did not test what you creationists call "abiogenesis." He tested his theory that bacteria were responsible for what, back then, ignorant people called "spontaneous generation." Didn't you read the article? (No, of course you didn't.) People used to believe that rats spontaneously appeared in old underwear! Although the creationist websites use Pasteur as one of their favorite talking points, his work had nothing -- absolutely nothing -- to do with your boogyman of abiogenesis. For once in your strange career in these threads, try to learn something. It won't hurt you.

663 posted on 02/24/2002 10:00:05 AM PST by PatrickHenry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 658 | View Replies ]


To: PatrickHenry
"You are so determined to remain in the dark. Pasteur did not test what you creationists call "abiogenesis."

As usual, when shown to be wrong, you resort to semantics. Pasteur proved that life omly comes from other life. That is the only scientific proof relating to the matter of abiogenesis.

You said in#517:
"If you see a planet full of life, such as the Earth, you can -- quite reasonably, based on our knowledge from chemistry and biology -- suggest that it developed over a long time from a pre-biotic soup."

By your own terms therefore, abiogenesis is nonsense.

698 posted on 02/24/2002 6:51:40 PM PST by gore3000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 663 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson