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Microbes grew, and he proposed it as an example ofspontaneousgeneration.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the first major experiment to challengespontaneousgeneration, he placed meat in a variety of sealed, open, and partially covered containers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He believed there were internal molds that shaped thespontaneousgenerationof each family and that the families themselves were entirely and eternally distinct.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This suggested that airborne microorganisms, notspontaneousgeneration, was responsible.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Disproof of the traditional ideas ofspontaneousgenerationis no longer controversial among professional biologists.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Structure alone cannot justify explanatory appeals to conformity (p. 171),spontaneousgeneration(p. 188), convenience of usage (p. 358), or insight (p. 390).
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Whilespontaneousgeneration, the alternative to panspermia, has not been shown, we know that humans are sending life into space.
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The replica appears on the resurrection earth by a kind ofspontaneousgeneration.
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Part of the motive for such speculation was almost certainly unease with the idea ofspontaneousgenerationof life.
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In so doing, they have disproved such false ideas asspontaneousgenerationwhile enhancing the correct notion of a divine purposeful creation.
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The first case,spontaneousgeneration, could have occurred through incremental steps, starting with simple chemistry.
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Averroes chooses to discuss the subject of the so-called "spontaneousgeneration" - this indeed is where the vivifying powers of the celestial bodies come to the fore with particular clarity.
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They cannot appoint themselves, and they cannot come into existence byspontaneousgeneration.
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That reflects aspontaneousgenerationof interest in this particular subject; a rather remarkable growth.
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This was in order to experiment withspontaneousgeneration.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Anaximander also claimed thatspontaneousgenerationcontinued to this day, with aquatic forms being produced directly from lifeless matter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He too held to aspontaneousgenerationof fully formed plants and animals under the influence of the sun.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This nonlinearity can lead to thespontaneousgenerationof order.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Many centuries passed before scientists were able to demonstrate that suchspontaneousgenerationdoes not in fact occur in nature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It deals with various science fiction elements such asspontaneousgeneration, futurology, the end of the world and doomsday, resurrection, and the afterlife.
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