Spontaneous generation is an ancient pagan belief that life can originate from non life. This belief was not limited to the ancient world, but persisted right up until 1650, when Italian physician Francesco Redi proved that maggots, rather than randomly spawning in rotten meat, came from flies. But then, less than 30 years later, bacteria were discovered, and it was assumed that at least they would come from non-living matter.
For nearly 200 years, this belief persisted. But in 1864, Louis Pasteur came along, and he performed an experiment on some broth. By heating the broth to the point where all microbes were killed, and preventing any new microbes from entering the broth, Pasteur demonstrated that "Microscopic beings must come into the world from parents similar to themselves." (1)
This concept, known as biogenesis, is a well established scientific fact (and one upon which the food industry heavily relies). To this day, no scientist has ever been able to demonstrate that any living thing, microscopic or otherwise, can come into existence without parents similar to themselves.
Pasteur's experiment is just one more example of science catching up with the Bible. While the rest of the world held to silly myths like spontaneous generation, the Bible tells us God created life with the ability to reproduce according to its kind (Genesis 1:11-12, 21, 24-25). In other words, the rest of the world needed 200 years worth of research to figure out what any Creationist, including Pasteur himself, could have told you 3,400 years ago.
But it gets worse. While science had to catch up with the Bible, Evolutionists have yet to catch up with science. Whereas the law of biogenesis is a proven scientific fact, and one that you can prove at home without ever leaving your kitchen, Evolutionists still believe in spontaneous generation.
This fact is so embarrassing to Evolutionists that a lot of them actually try to distance themselves from it. Others, not so much. You may notice this article's header image is considerably sloppier than some of my other material (not to mention the awkward font). This is because it's actually an unedited oldie. I made it following a debate with one Evolutionist who insisted Pasteur only showed that mice did not come from dirty clothes, and he didn't even know bacteria existed. But evidently, he did. And his experiments showed, beyond all reasonable doubt, that life requires pre-existing life to come about naturally.
To conclude, I would like to leave you with a quote from Evolutionist Cyril Ponnamperuma: "It is, perhaps, ironic that we tell beginning students in biology about Pasteur’s experiments as the triumph of reason over mysticism yet we are coming back to spontaneous generation, albeit in a more refined and scientific sense, namely to chemical evolution." (2)
Ironic indeed. In an attempt to deny their accountability to their Creator, Evolutionists return to the easily discredited myth of spontaneous generation, and they call this "science". In reality, it is an insult to science; a man made religion designed with one purpose in mind. That purpose is the denial of the Gospel.
References
1. Tiner, John H. - Louis Pasteur—Founder of Modern Medicine, 1990
2. Ponnamperuma, Cyril - The Origins of Life, 1972