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To: xzins
Pasteur's observations concluded that "spontaneous generation" was an impossibility.

This comes up often, and it's a complete mischaracterication of Pasteur's work. I think that someone (or some website) is feeding you some really terrible information. Pasteur showed that bacteria are responsible for the life that was observed to spring from decayed matter. This is utterly unrelated to the "ultimate origin of life" issue. Some background material is HERE.

44 posted on 08/21/2002 6:21:37 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
Nope. Read a biography of Pasteur. His intent was to demonstrate that spontaneous generation was impossible. He showed it.

BTW, DO you know what Jesus said about the "origin of life?"

45 posted on 08/21/2002 6:26:10 AM PDT by xzins
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To: PatrickHenry; xzins
The "Law of Biogenesis" was first presented by Dr. Louis Pasteur in 1861; it declares that "Life comes only from life, and only after its own kind."

There are, of course, absolutely zero demonstrable laboratory examples of Life spontaneously erupting from Non-Life anywhere in the history of science. Thus, much like the Law of Gravity, the Law of Biogenesis continues to enjoy absolute logical presumption over imaginative hypotheses about life spontaneously erupting from non-life.

Exceptionally Silly persons will continue to place a blind and uncritical Faith in various magical fantasies which suppose that life can mechanistically and spontaneously erupt from non-life; but of course, their unscientific fantasies are little better than a daydream -- certainly not to be confused with any kind of rational Thought.

50 posted on 08/21/2002 7:15:17 AM PDT by OrthodoxPresbyterian
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