Spontaneous generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Spontaneous generation or Equivocal generation is an obsolete theory regarding the origin of life from inanimate matter, which held that this process was a commonplace and everyday occurrence, as d...
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Abiogenesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the natural sciences, abiogenesis , or " chemical evolution ", is the study of how life on Earth could have arisen from inanimate matter. It should not be confused with evolution, which is the ...
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Aristotle, a great thinker and keen observer, felt that the theory of special creation did not explain all the observed facts, e.g. appearance of maggots in uncovered meat within a few days and tadpoles swimming in a puddle all of a sudden....
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It started with the ancient Greeks,Aristotle commented on it several times,but I don't know if anyone is credited with first proposing it.I know it hung around until the mid 1800's until Pasteur laid it to rest.
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1-9 Spontaneous generation was an attractive theory to many people, but was ultimately disproven. ... Using several pieces of meat, paper and cheesecloth, Francesco Redi produced compelling evidence against the theory of spontaneous generation. One of the strong points of this experiment was its simplicity,
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The spontaneous generation of life theory eventually was proved false by hundreds of research studies such as the 1668 experiment by Italian physician Francesco Redi (1626–1697). In one of the first controlled biological experiments, Redi proved that maggots appeared in meat only after flies had deposited their eggs...
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www.trueorigin.org/abio.asp
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When Jean Baptiste Lamarck proposed his theory of evolution, to reconcile his ideas with Aristotle’s Scala naturae, he proposed that as creatures strive for greater perfection, thus move up the “ladder,” new organisms arise by spontaneous generation to fill the vacated places on the lower rungs.
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biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio114/spontgen.htm
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Throughout the nineteenth century, there were believers in spontaneous generation. A major believer was Lorenz Oken (1779-1851), a follower of Goethe, who proposed (1809) a "sea-slime" theory of the origins of life, just as Anaximander had.
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Today, a revised version of the theory of spontaneous generation exists in the scientific community; this question of spontaneous generation deals with the origins of life on Earth.
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