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spontaneous generation
Title: spontaneous generation
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 247 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
spontaneous generation
Spontaneous generation, the generation of living from nonliving matter, was an
accepted explanation which explained that under the proper conditions of temperature,
time, place, etc., decaying matter simply turns into organic life. This idea dominated
scientific thinking until 1846 when Louis Pasteur completely shattered the theory by his
experiments. Under controlled laboratory conditions, Pasteur proved that no organic life
can emerge from decaying, nonliving mater. The previous notion has not been
demonstrated in the test tube …showed first 75 words of 247 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 247 total…when air
particles are exposed to food such as bread or broth and then are left sitting for a few
days, they become filled with living microorganisms. These organisms come from a
biological cause, not a generational development. The mice that came out of the rags in
the barn was an example of a psychological explanation for reproduction and could not be
explained in any other logical way according to the people of the 1600-1700’s.
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