The supposed development of living organisms from nonliving matter. Also called autogenesis, spontaneous generation.
Medical Dictionary: The Free Dictionary.com
Have you gotten to study about Louis Pasteur yet? Besides his work on preventing germs from spoiling your milk (Pasteurization) and immunization, he is most famous for proving that spontaneous generation is impossible. Which is why people today switched out this debunked idea for the much cooler “abiogenesis”.
What is spontaneous generation, and what do evolution and creationism have to say about it?
Spontaneous generation is the idea that life comes from non-life. From the time of the Greeks, people thought something like this must happen to make freshwater eels because they never saw any eggs.
People in the 1600s had the idea that maggots just came to life on pieces of meat from nowhere. A scientist called Francesco Redi did experiments that showed that the maggots come from the eggs that flies lay. Without flies you have no maggots.
Scientists have never seen a plant or animal come to life without a parent
Creationists say that God is the only one who never came into being since He IS, and time itself is one of God’s designs. This means that God goes infinitely backwards and forward in time (and sideways since He’s everywhere at once). So, all genealogies of living things have God at the end of the list of great, great, grandparents. Luke says this clearly about people in Luke 3:38:
Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
God is the ultimate ‘parent’ and we are all His offspring Acts 17:28:
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Naturalistic Evolutionists have to say that life came from mindless non-life. They must believe in spontaneous generation. This makes evolutionists very uncomfortable, so they’ve renamed this process “abiogenic origin” [life from non-life] or abiogenesis.
Sounds so much smarter doesn’t it?
But does this idea hold water? What about this foundational understanding of the nature of the world?
All living organisms are composed of cells, and all cells arise from other cells. Biology Reference
- process food
- clean out poisons
- not fall apart
- adjust to changing conditions
- have babies
All at the same time. All by itself.
That last one… even if by some miracle a ‘cell’ could develop all alone, do you have any idea how complicated the mechanisms are for making a copy so there is a new cell?
Because this whole idea is so impossible, evolutionists try to avoid discussions about where the first life came from altogether. Check this debate intro from Creation Today:
“[The guy on the evolution side] defended the evolution worldview and even admitted that he pretended to believe in God to avoid answering the question of abiogenesis…. It took until near the end of the debate for him to admit he really was an atheist. We believe that his invention of a god for that evening was purely to avoid the issue of where life came from as he stated several times he was just discussing common descent and that abiotic origin was not evolution.”
That’s because it didn’t happen that way!!!
God is so great, so smart that He made even the ‘simplest’ living things so complicated no one could miss that they were created.
God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Acts 17:24,25
More on this topic: The Miller Urey Experiment: Proof for What?
14 Comments
synapticcohesion · at
Yes, evolution is playing into man’s primitive believe in abiogenesis, or spontaneous generation. Life apparently coming from non-life–just because the organisms were too small to see with the naked eye.
creationscience4kids · at
Your right, but I wouldn’t use the word “primitive” myself, because the most “primitive” [for the kids: primative= having to do with the first] you can get is Adam, and he knew where everything came from. I’d say, “people who didn’t want to admit that God made everything and couldn’t see what was really happening.” 😀 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/primitive
synapticcohesion · at
You’re right. I found some better synonyms for that word: childlike, naive, simple, undeveloped, unsophisticated, untrained, untutored. 🙂
forhisgloryandpraise · at
Tag, you’re it! Somehow, I ended up in a game of tag and I’m now tagging you! Here is the link with the rules and the one question I picked out for you to answer… http://forhisgloryandpraise.wordpress.com/
creationscience4kids · at
Thanks, I think!!!
Hmmm, good question for me. I don’t want to cover up my newest post yet, so that will give me time to think. I know what Dr. Lisle’s answer to this is, so I’ll probably borrow his and put it in my own words. :-p
Comments are closed.