Sentence examples for spontaneous generation from inspiring English sources
noun
The fancied production of living organisms without previously existing parents from inorganic matter, or from decomposing organic matter, a notion which at one time had many supporters; abiogenesis; anomalous generation
Opposed to these trends, British naturalists and philosophers were generally hard opponents of spontaneous generation.
While both supported the idea of spontaneous generation, Italian abbot and physiologist Lazzaro Spallanzani maintained that life could never spontaneously generate from dead matter.
People believed in spontaneous generation of new forms of life.
Yet the idea of spontaneous generation died hard.
Yet no evidence for spontaneous generation now can be cited.
You can test to see if spontaneous generation occurs or if geese hatch out of barnacles.
To hear him describe it, Vedantam's podcast had an almost spontaneous generation.
Yobas, L. et al. High-performance flow-focusing geometry for spontaneous generation of monodispersed droplets.
One basic mechanism appears to result from spontaneous generation of cardiac impulses within the ventricle.
He suggested that new life in certain instances arose from non-life, a related idea called "spontaneous generation".
Many believed in spontaneous generation because it explained such occurrences as maggots swarming on decaying meat.
