Re: Abiogenesis and the Ency Brit
Joseph Mastropaolo (mastropaolo@net999.com)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:31:59 -0700No matter how abiogenesis and spontaneous generation are
lexicographically manipulated, they share the meaning of life arising
from nonliving matter. There is no importance in whether the event was
spontaneous, like the Egyptian serpent, or aided, like Prometheus' clay
man. All such speculations have never been observed and every experiment
has failed. Therefore, abiogenesis and spontaneous generation are the
stuff of fiction, not science.
Burgy provided:
> "Abiogenesis, as a name for the production of living by non-living
> matter, has, of late, superseded the less accurate phrase "spontaneous
> generation." Professor Huxley, who made use of this word ... in 1870... .
> Haeckel expressly embraces abiogenesis as a necessary and integral part
> of the theory of universal evolution."
One may add that in keeping with evolution's fictional foundation and
tradition, Ernst Haeckel's famous Fundamental Biogenetic Law, "Ontogeny
recapitulates phylogeny," was a fraudulent misrepresentation perpetuated
in biology textbooks for 130 years. "He was somewhat unscrupulous in the
treatment of scientific facts," is borne out by the fact that he
falsified the drawings of the embryos and his long-lived contribution to
evolution has become known as one of the most famous fakes in biology.
Joseph Mastropaolo