Letters to the Editor
Jordan Jay
Rev. Kern, your March 13 letter, “
What evolutionists fear” (Oklahoma
Gazette), betrays
a fundamental misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. Spontaneous
generation was an incorrect scientific hypothesis that Louis Pasteur
did, indeed, disprove. However, to equate spontaneous generation and the
current definition of abiogenesis is disingenuous. Spontaneous
generation referred to the idea that individual present-day organisms
could arise from nonliving matter, such as maggots seeming to arise from
rotten meat out of thin air.