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They work with Genesis in a way, but not in a way that is compatible with spontaneous generation. It conflicts with this doctrine that all generations of organisms were created at the beginning, ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Spontaneous Generation of Plants and Animals ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 3 No. 25new (December 1860), p. 392 doi:10.1038 ...

While many scientists tried to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation, in 1745, English biologist John Turberville Needham believed he had created the perfect experiment favoring ...

Spontaneous generation had the whiff of blasphemy: If life could spring into existence, it did not require divine intervention. But Pasteur’s claim that the atmosphere teemed with germs also ...

spontaneous generation in meat--how the blue sky is created--population in stagnant water--bacteria which live by putrefaction. Share full article Dec. 26, 1877 ...

James Strick writes about Darwin’s complicated relationship with spontaneous generation. The basic premise of Louis Pasteur’s famous swan-necked flask experiment is shown below.

Conversely, genuine spontaneous generation would be a higher-order function of concentration, the authors note. Subscribe to Scientific American to learn and share the most exciting discoveries, ...