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Spontaneous Generation

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:20:21
Publish Date: 2019-12-11 11:00:00
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These days, biologists believe all living things come from other living things. But for a long time, people believed that life would, from time to time, spontaneously pop into existence more often—and not just that one time at the base of the evolutionary tree. Even the likes of Aristotle believed in the “spontaneous generation” of life until Louis Pasteur debunked the theory—or so the story goes. 

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