spontaneous generation

68.101.163.141 restored two paragraphs I removed. I explained why they were a bit contentious here, though it was not in an obvious place (buried under lots of mostly pointless dialogue).

They were as follows:

All sides of the creation/evolution debate agree that some form of abiogenesis actually did occur at one time. Creationists agree because the Bible tells them that God created the Earth significantly before He created the life which exists on that planet; real scientists agree because the best scientific theories of Earth's history indicate that at one time in the distant past, the Earth's surface was incapable of supporting any life whatsoever. It is only on the question of whether or not God had a necessary role in abiogenesis that real scientists part company with Creationists.
The notion that God (or any supernatural influence) intervenes in evolution or chemical interactions is not falsifiable by science, but it could be rendered irrelevant by a scientific demonstration that natural chemical processes are sufficient to explain the origins of life. The philosophical notion of vitalism posits that living organisms are imbued with a living essence or spirit which non-living things do not possess. However, no experiment has shown that living organisms are chemically different from non-living matter, or require anything more than basic chemical elements and their interactions in order to breathe, metabolize food, and reproduce.
TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa is right that the second paragraph was not contentious as such. It was removed for continuity purposes (bad idea in retrospect). The first paragraph, however, made the inaccurate claim that special creation was necessarily life from non-life. Furthermore, "abiogenesis" refers to more than the literal meaning of its name (just as does "spontaneous generation" with which it is often confused because of the latter's literal meaning). Furthermore, the claim that "all" sides of the debate agree ignores such counterexamples as Raelianism, which does not believe in any ultimate origin of life at all. --Escuerdo (talk)

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