Tag: spontaneous generation

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Author
Giuseppe Sermonti

Date
November 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Zoology
Tagged
, Arezzo, biology, birds, eggs, evolution, fish, fleas, Francesco Redi, gall flies, Giuseppe Sermonti, life, meat, microbes, Nobel Prize, reptiles, spontaneous generation, test tube, viruses, worms}

Francesco Redi and the Founding of Modern Biology

_{Giuseppe Sermonti
November 17, 2025

Biology, Zoology

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Why was it so important that the flea should have come out of an egg and not simply from filth? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2025

Categories
Biochemistry
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Allan Bloom, Anaxagoras, Biochemical Predestination, Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Thaxton, chemical evolution, Dean Kenyon, DNA, Erasmus Darwin, Frankenstein, galvanism, Guillermo Gonzalez, horror novels, James Tour, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Lord Byron, Louis Pasteur, Luigi Galvani, Mary Shelley, Michael Polanyi, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Percy Shelley, Plato, Reijer Hooykaas, Return of the God Hypothesis, RNA, Roger Olsen, Shannon information, Signature in the Cell, spaghetti, specified complexity, spontaneous generation, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, uniformitarianism, Walter Bradley}

Walter Bradley and Intelligent Design’s First Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2025

Biochemistry, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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How does life emerge from that which is not alive? This mystery exercises a peculiar fascination, with the power to elicit remarkable feats of imagination. Read More ›

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Date
July 3, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, BioLogos, cellular complexity, Christianity, Discovery Institute Press, Edgar Brightman, gatekeeper, inference to the best explanation, integration, Johannes Kepler, materialism, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Minding the Brain, natural theology, open-mindedness, Paul de Vries, philosophical naturalism, presuppositions, Robert Boyle, Robert J. Marks, Robert Larmer, rule of thumb, secondary causation, spontaneous generation, theism}

Methodological Naturalism as Religion in Disguise

_{Science and Culture
July 3, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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If the data points to outcomes that natural causes can't explain, then ruling out supernatural causes is not scientific humility — it’s religious dogma. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
May 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Blaise Pasca, bleeding, caloric theory of heat, Caltech, Church of Scientism, climate change, COVID shots, Darwinian evolution, epidemiology, falsified theories, famine, geocentrism, global warming, history of science, John West, miasma theory of disease, Michael Crichton, neuroscience, phlogiston, quantum mechanics, settled science, spontaneous generation, static universe, Stephen Hawking, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, ulcers}

The Myth of “Settled Science”

_{Robert J. Marks II
May 20, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Einstein was wrong. Quantum mechanics does not follow the principle of “local causality.” God apparently does play dice with the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
History of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinism, earth, epicycles, evolution, Galileo Galilei, geocentric model, geocentricism, hydrogen, Louis Pasteur, maggots, natural selection, nature, Nicolaus Copernicus, predictions, Ptolemy, quantum mechanics, reality, Richard Feynman, Robert Shedinger, scientific theory, solar system, spontaneous generation}

Does Darwinism Meet the Tests of a True Theory?

_{Eric Hedin
March 5, 2024

Biology, Evolution, History of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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An example of a now-discarded theory is that of spontaneous generation, a hypothetical process of living organisms developing from nonliving matter. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, A. N. Wilson, abiogenesis, Anaximander, Anaximenes, apologetics, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, Charles Bradlaugh, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Goldilocks Zone, Karl Popper, Lucretius, Melanie Phillips, natural preservation, natural selection, New Atheists, New Synthesis, randomness, Richard Dawkins, spontaneous generation, teleology, The Descent of Man, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Malthus, Victorian period, Werner Heisenberg}

Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences

_{Neil Thomas
February 12, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
December 27, 2022

Categories
History of Science
Medicine
Origin of Life
Tagged
, bacteria, crucifix, France, Louis Pasteur, perseverance, plagiarism, Robert Koch, Roman Catholic, scientific integrity, spontaneous generation, stereochemistry, stroke, Vaccines}

Louis Pasteur, in Memoriam

_{Ann Gauger
December 27, 2022

History of Science, Medicine, Origin of Life

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“There is a time in every man's life when he looks to his God, when he looks at his life, when he wonders how he will be remembered.” Read More ›

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Date
December 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Ann Gauger, children, Christianity, factories, faith, ID the Future, Latin, Louis Pasteur, microbes, microorganisms, podcast, spontaneous generation, Vaccines, worms}

The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

_{Science and Culture
December 21, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Origin of Life

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In the 19th century, it was widely believed that the spontaneous generation of life from non-life was common and unremarkable. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
October 5, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, creation, E Conchis Omnia, Enlightenment, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, French Revolution, Jacques Monod, John Milton, Lucretius, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, spontaneous generation, theodicy, Thomas Paine}

Erasmus Darwin and Credible Denial

_{Neil Thomas
October 5, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Consideration of Erasmus Darwin’s writings suggests that his unbelief could well have been father to the thought in the matter of his evolutionary speculations. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Bradley

Date
September 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, First Life from Purely Natural Means? (series), hydrothermal vents, Jeffrey Bada, ocean, polymerization, polymers, primordial soup, proteins, RNA, Scientific American, seawater, spontaneous generation, Stanley Miller, temperature, TIME}

Forming Polymers: A Problem for the Origin of Life

_{Walter Bradley and Casey Luskin
September 22, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Assume for a moment that there was some way to produce simple organic molecules on the early Earth. Read More ›