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Spontaneous generation is the early evolutionary idea that
living organisms arise from non-living matter on their own,
(i.e., with no outside influence) by natural causes alone. It is
synonymous with abiogenesis. The proofs for spontaneous
generation were that flies arose spontaneously from rotting meat
and that microbes arose spontaneously from soup. Creation
scientist Francesco Redi provided the refutation of flies from
meat; fellow creationists Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur
proved that microbes do not arise spontaneously from soup.
Regarding his spontaneous generation experiments and the results
he obtained Pasteur stated: "La génération spontanée est une
chimère" ("Spontaneous generation is a dream"). A central tenet
in biology today is now 'Omne vivum ex vivo', Latin for "all
life [is] from life." A related statement is Omnis cellula e
cellula, "all cells [are] from cells;". Wh