Pasteur was not addressing the question of whether, in ancient earth conditions very different from those today, natural processes could lead to the origin of life. Pasteur was addressing the notion that life forms such as maggots appeared fully-formed in raw mean, mice in cheese, mold on bread, and so on. No scientist thinks that either today or in the past, living things arose in one giant leap like that. The author of Genesis, however, presumably accepted (as did all people in that period in history<\/a>) idea of spontaneous generation and of the earth\u2019s generative power, since he has God command the earth to bring forth living things. So young-earth creationists, in drawing attention to Pasteur\u2019s work, have misunderstood it and its relationship to both the scientific study of origins and to the Bible.<\/p>\n
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