Claim CB000:
Pasteur and other scientists disproved the concept of spontaneous
generation and established the "law of biogenesis" -- that life comes only
from previous life.
Source:
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here?
Brooklyn, NY, p. 38.
Response:
- The spontaneous generation that Pasteur and others disproved was the
idea that life forms such as mice, maggots, and bacteria can appear
fully formed. They disproved a form of creationism. There is no law
of biogenesis saying that very primitive life cannot form from
increasingly complex molecules.
created 2000-4-24