SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
(See also Evolution)
amino acids: ce 40-43
ancient Egyptian belief: w78 7/15 5
comments on:
Hoyle, Fred: g82 3/22 29
Pasteur, Louis: lp 79
DNA: ce 45-46
evolution: ce 17, 38-47, 50-53; g81 9/22 22; w78 7/15 5-8; ev 31-34; g67 4/22 8-9; g65 4/8 7-8; w64 586; g63 4/22 4-7; g62 3/8 12; w56 101; g54 3/8 18-27; nh 47-48; lg 81; ew 18
Greek philosophers: w78 5/15 25-26; w78 7/15 5
“organic soup”: ce 41-43
proteins: ce 43-46; g81 9/22 7
Quotations
comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop: ce 52
if one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by a scientific training into the conviction that life originated on the Earth, this simple calculation wipes the idea entirely out of court: ce 52
one has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible: ce 52
only acceptable explanation is creation: ce 52-53
origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle: ce 52
science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: ce 51
simple dogmatism—asserting that what you want to believe did in fact happen: ce 51
still an article of faith: ce 52