spontaneous generation

How To Use spontaneous generation In A Sentence

• n. - spontaneous generation. autogenetic, adj. autognosis Xml's Blinklist.com
• This is why Darwin resisted the use the term preferring the word “transmutation” which I think came originally from Lamarck whose scheme was also progressive but involved environmental mechanisms as well as God-given drives to complexity and spontaneous generation. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: Why Should Words Have Meanings? (Chapter 1) - The Panda's Thumb
• The reasoning was: "Boiling has killed all forms of vitality _in_ the flask; by the hermetical sealing nothing living can gain subsequent access to the fluid; therefore, if living organisms do appear when the flask is opened, they must have arisen in the dead matter _de novo_ by spontaneous generation, but if they do never so arise, the probability is that they originate in spores or eggs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
• The catchphrase of the day was ‘abiogenesis’ or ‘spontaneous generation’, to describe the belief that living organisms could develop from non-living matter.
• There was a widespread persistence of the old belief that living creatures could arise from appropriate non-living matter. This was the theory of present-day spontaneous generation (abiogenesis)—a false view that has died hard.
• The latter hypothesis is tenable, for we theorise that if spontaneous generation still occurs on the earth, it is far more likely to occur in the form of simple organisms than of complicated organisms. THE HUMAN DRIFT
• The researches of Pasteur in respect to the forms of disease in French vineyards opened a fruitful field of inquiry, and the theories of Dr. Bastian on spontaneous generation gave rise to the beautiful series of experiments by Tyndall on bacterian life. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
• But if Pasteur and his followers disposed finally of heterogenesis, this did not really check the career in the modern age of another version of spontaneous generation — that connected with the problem of archebiosis, or the first origins of life on our planet. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
• The false theory of evolution is called the monophyletic, which teaches that all species of plants and animals including man, developed from one cell or germ which came by creation or spontaneous generation. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
• Farley and Geison's case-study in the Pasteur-Pouchet debate over Spontaneous Generation illustrates that the denial of rational explanation is the precondition to sociological explanation.