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Abiogenesis been discarded in favor of the theory of
biogenesis, which holds that life comes
This is the from only from life. (See: Biogenesis.)
theory that lifeless But some evolutionist circles
matter came together that still defend the idea that
to form a living orga- life was formed long
nism. Also known as ago from some chance
the theory of Sponta- combination of lifeless
neous Generation, this matter. But they have be-
idea has persisted since en unable to prove their
the Middle Ages. (Also see Spontaneo- claims scientifically, and
us generation.) their attempts to do so
In Medieval times, it was widely ac- have been inconclusive.
cepted that maggots were generated (See Miller Experiment, the and Fox
from food scraps, clothe moths from wo- Experiment, the.)
ol and mice from wheat! Interesting ex-
periments were devised to prove this be-
lief. One 17 -century physicist by the Aboriginal peoples
th
name of J.B. Van Helmont thought that
Before Europeans discovered Aus-
if he spread a few grains of wheat on a
tralia, the only people there were Abori-
dirty cloth, mice would be generated.
ginals, the descendents of groups who
And when maggots appeared in rotting
migrated to the north coast of Australia
meat, they were regarded as proof that
from Southeast Asia 50,000 years ago
life could arise from lifeless matter.
and who, in time, spread to all parts of
Only later was it understood that
the subcontinent.
maggots did not come about spontaneo-
Before the Europeans came to Aus-
usly, but from the nearly microscopic
tralia in 1788, there were some 300,000
eggs that adult flies laid on the meat.
Aboriginals living there, divided into
The theory of spontaneous generati-
500 tribes. The newly-arrived Europeans
on was shown to be totally false by the
regarded them as “primitive” and under-
th
famous 19 -century French scientist,
took to exterminate them, employing ex-
Louis Pasteur, who summarized his fin-
traordinarily savage means. By the end
dings in this triumphant sentence:
of the extermination, there were few
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous Aboriginal survivors from the original
generation recover from the mortal blow 500 tribes. Of the Australian population
struck by this simple experiment. 2
today, only one in a hundred persons is
Today the theory of abiogenesis has of Aboriginal ancestry. 3
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)