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'''Abiogenesis''' is a scientific hypothesis postulated to explain the origins of living organisms. According to this theory, a process exists through which living organisms developed from nonliving matter.

'''Abiogenesis''' is a scientific hypothesis postulated to explain the origins of living organisms. According to this hypothesis, a process exists through which living organisms developed from nonliving matter. Evolutionists suggest that an event of Abiogenesis was the "origin of life". No such process, by which organisms, even incredibly simple ones, can spontaneously be created from non-living matter is currently known or observed.

==Historical Meanings==

==Historical Meanings==

Abiogenesis may also refer to [[spontaneous generation]], an archaic theory that stated that life could appear spontaneously under particular conditions. For example, pieces of cheese and bread wrapped in rags and left in dark areas were thought to produce mice, because after several weeks, mice appeared in the food. The same reasoning was applied to the appearance of maggots on decaying meat. <ref name="Dictionary Definition">[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abiogenesis Abiogenesis from Reference.com]</ref>

Abiogenesis may also refer to [[spontaneous generation]], an archaic theory that stated that life could appear spontaneously under particular conditions. For example, pieces of cheese and bread wrapped in rags and left in dark areas were thought to produce mice, because after several weeks, mice appeared in the food. The same reasoning was applied to the appearance of maggots on decaying meat. <ref name="Dictionary Definition">[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abiogenesis Abiogenesis from Reference.com]</ref>. This theory was finally put to rest by experiments by [[Louis Pasteur]]

==Biblical Abiogenesis==

==Biblical Abiogenesis==