04/11/2024
Did you know Louis Pasteur proved life can only come from life?
That's right. He disproved abiogenesis - the idea life can arise spontaneously from nothing as evolutionists believe.
It is generally accepted that the “golden age of microbiology” came about in 1876 when Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur showed that contagion could pass from one individual to another. Their discoveries however, were ignored and even scornfully rejected by virtually the entire medical establishment. Medical scientists and practicing physicians fiercely defended the age old idea that microbial life could be generated “de novo” under certain conditions. Through careful experimentation, Koch and Pasteur were able to prove irrefutably that particular microbes begat particular kinds of maladies. Furthermore, these men were able to show that not even the simplest living things can arise from non-living matter. While presenting to his audience his ingenious “swan-neck flask” experiment, Pasteur spoke triumphantly:
I have taken my drop of water from the immensity of creation, and I have taken it full of the elements appropriate to the development of microscopic organisms. And I wait, I watch, I question it! – begging it to recommence for me the beautiful spectacle of the first creation. But it is dumb, dumb since these experiments were begun several years ago; it is dumb because I have kept it sheltered – from the only thing man does not know how to produce; from the germs which float in the air, from Life, for Life is a germ and a germ is Life. Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow of this simple experiment!
The refutation of spontaneous generation and the establishment of the germ concept of disease were undoubtedly the greatest contributions ever made to the saving of human lives. Had this not been done, physicians would still be trying to combat disease-producing organisms that they thought arose spontaneously within the bodies of their patients. Thus, preventive medicine became possible with the germ concept of disease.
Today, a new idea of spontaneous generation is accepted by nearly the entire scientific establishment. This new idea, called chemical evolution, or abiogenesis, differs from the old only in that it claims the very first life forms arose spontaneously. In one breath we are told that spontaneous generation is impossible. In the next breath, scientists tell us that life had to originate somewhere. Since an act of creation is outside the realm of scientific verification, “An act of spontaneous generation must have occurred.” What is certain in any case, is that no constructive progress in medicine was possible until the ancient doctrine of spontaneous generation had been discarded. To hold to both beliefs, biogenesis and abiogenesis, is to retreat back to the stagnation and superstition of the Dark Ages.
The facts of modern medicine, on the other hand, agree marvelously with the Mosaic record. The “Law of Biogenesis” (i.e., that life comes from other similar life) harmonizes perfectly with Genesis 1:24 in that God commanded all species to reproduce “after their kind.”
Credit - Creation Moments
