RE: A Poll On Abiogenesis (Spontaneous Generation)

Cummins (Cummins@dialnet.net)
Sat, 3 Oct 1998 12:06:22 -0500

> [mailto:evolution-owner@udomo2.calvin.edu]On Behalf Of Glenn R. Morton
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 1998 5:31 AM

> This is true. Spontaneous generation was the belief that a bunch of rags
> with wheat in a corner would produce a mouse in a couple of days. It was
> the belief that rotting meat spontaneously generated flies. This has
> nothing to do with the origin of life issue What you are doing is
> purposely
> conflating two different issues. While one has a perfect right to claim
> that the origin of life scenarios are as yet undemonstrated, one has no
> right to distort history and the ideas that were held about
> various issues.

Spontaneous generation of Evolutionists: The anti-science belief that
warm stinky pond water creates living organisms.