The word "abiogenesis" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word when referring to the process of life originating from non-living matter. For example: "The study of abiogenesis is a fascinating topic that scientists are still trying to understand."
And that remains a huge mystery.One of the newer theories of abiogenesis is the hydrothermal theory, which says that life was first generated in deep volcanic vents.
Dr Hazen is particularly interested in how life transformed the planet in its early years and in the mystery of abiogenesis: the spontaneous generation of life on Earth.Pinching an idea from our sister blog, Prospero, we decided to ask Dr Hazen about his work in a less constrained interview format.
The early Greeks believed that living things could originate from nonliving matter (abiogenesis) and that the goddess Gea could create life from stones.
In the early half of the 1800s, Franz Schulze and Theodor Schwann were major figures in the attempt to disprove theories of abiogenesis until Louis Pasteur finally announced the results of his conclusive experiments in 1864.
Spontaneous generation, also called abiogenesis, the hypothetical process by which living organisms develop from nonliving matter, must be rejected.
The issues surrounding the origin of matter, abiogenesis and anthropogenesis are as relevant to 11-year-olds as they are to research scientists – I find myself explaining that scientific endeavours can provide some robust answers to some of the "how" questions but not the "why" questions – and pupils fill in the gaps themselves.
The dream of poetic abiogenesis dies hard -- the wish that the fundamentals of earthly existence (sun, water, soil, stone) might serve not solely as one's subject matter but as one's progenitors.
There were words in his book, like "abiogenesis," that now he could not define.
