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'''Abiogenesis''', also known as [[spontaneous generation]], in its 19<sup>th</sup> century meaning, referred to the "now discredited theory that living organisms can arise spontaneously from inanimate matter".<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abiogenesis Dictionary.com: Abiogenesis]</ref> At that time, there was much speculation on just how living things can come into existence. The experiments of Louis Pasteur helped improve the understanding of the subject.
'''Abiogenesis''', also known as [[spontaneous generation]], in its 19<sup>th</sup> century meaning, referred to the "now discredited theory that living organisms can arise spontaneously from inanimate matter".<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abiogenesis Dictionary.com: Abiogenesis]</ref> At that time, there was much speculation on just how living things can come into existence. The experiments of [[Louis Pasteur]] helped improve the understanding of the subject.
In the modern sense of the word, it refers to whatever transition is presumed to have occurred between a universe with no living things (it is generally accepted that living things were not present in the original quark-gluon plasma of the [[big bang]]), and the present universe.
In the modern sense of the word, it refers to whatever transition is presumed to have occurred between a universe with no living things (it is generally accepted that living things were not present in the original quark-gluon plasma of the [[big bang]]), and the present universe.