To: cornelis
Making a poster bow down is tiresome and distracting. But you are welcome to retract your claim that Pasteur said "absolutely nothing about biogenesis." You could be the model poster.Fine. Pasteur addressed the biogenesis theory of his time. But not biogenesis as it has been understood for the last hundred years. Not even as it was understood by Darwin -- which is the frame of reference for the current discussion.
Darwin's warm little pond seems rather quaint today, but his discussion of biogenesis lead to Miller, and Miller has lead to more sophisticated experiments.
1,459 posted on
09/25/2006 1:53:05 PM PDT by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
To: js1138
1,462 posted on
09/25/2006 2:02:27 PM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Science-denial is not conservative. It's reality-denial and that's what liberals do.)
To: js1138
Miller et al. continue to give hope.
As far as Darwin is concerned, he had misgivings about it, allowing for theism in his Origin of Species, admitting laws as being "impressed on matter by the Creator" and that biotic powers were "breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."
1,463 posted on
09/25/2006 2:06:02 PM PDT by
cornelis
(La génération spontanée est une chimère. --Pasteur)
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