30 April 2019
Word of the Day: Abiogenesis
ABIOGENESIS. Spontaneous generation. Held by many of the ancients, its basic presupposition was that life does not precisely come from non-life. Rather a superior power, ultimately divine, enters under certain circumstances to change inanimate matter into living organisms. In conflict with Catholic philosophy that excludes, except in miracles, divine intervention in natural causes. (Etym. Greek a, not + bios, life + genesis, origin.)
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