Originally posted by googlefudge
Have a look at the videos I linked.
The idea that was disproved was that living matter contained and was
animated by living energy [life force] and that when something decayed
or rotted that life force would [b]spontaneously generate maggots, flies,
MICE, mould, fungus, bacteria, ect.
And what was proved was that actually if you had a sea ...[text shortened]... olutely nothing at all about the origins of life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP12uHdcS74[/b]
This video is good; but the narrator is misleading at the end. He states the Pasteur accepted evolution in the end, but he gives no evidence that he believe the general theory of evolution or accepted life could arise from non-life as claimed by the biogenesis hypothesis.
There is no reason to believe that molecules can just magically arrange themselves in the correct manner to produce any kind of life because man can not even do that.
About Pasteur and his religious beliefs
Pasteur said, “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.”
Skeptics, eager to downplay or denigrate creation scientists of the past, have rewritten the history of Pasteur and changed him into a skeptic embracing evolution and Darwin’s ideas. Yet his son-in-law, an eyewitness, writes in The Life of Pasteur, the most extensive biography yet written about Pasteur, regarding his last days of faith in Christ:
Absolute faith in God and in Eternity, and a conviction that the power for good given to us in this world will be continued beyond it, were feelings which pervaded his whole life; the virtues of the gospel had ever been present to him. Full of respect for the form of religion which had been that of his forefathers, he came simply to it and naturally for spiritual help in these last weeks of his life (Vallery-Radot 1911, vol. 2, p. 240).
On January 1, 1895 (nine months before his death), his colleague and friend Dr. Emily Roux brought him the flasks that Pasteur had used to disprove spontaneous generation (Vallery-Radot 1911, vol. 2, pp. 238–239), the mythical idea that life can “pop” into existence by time and chance. Pasteur seemed to reaffirm his belief in the Creator with no hint that Darwinism had replaced his belief. Then, for those who are skeptical about his belief in Christ, we go to the last day of his life, September 28, 1895 (4:40 p.m.), Louis Pasteur was found holding his wife’s hand with one hand and a crucifix with the other. He tightly gripped both for twenty-four hours. Does this sound like a man who had lost his faith in the Creator and in Christ?
In 1888, a grateful France founded the Pasteur Institute. In the closing paragraphs of his inaugural speech,
Pasteur said: Two opposing laws seem to me now to be in contest. The one, a law of blood and death opening out each day new modes of destruction, forces nations always to be ready for the battle. The other, a law of peace, work and health, whose only aim is to deliver man from the calamities which beset him. The one seeks violent conquests, the other, the relief of mankind. The one places a single life above all victories, the other sacrifices hundreds of thousands of lives to the ambition of a single individual. The law of which we are the instruments strives even through the carnage to cure the wounds due to the law of war. Treatment by our antiseptic methods may preserve the lives of thousands of soldiers. Which of these two laws will prevail,
God only knows. But of this we may be sure, science, in obeying the law of humanity, will always labor to enlarge the frontiers of life. (Vallery-Radot 1901, 2, p. 289)
These are the translated words engraved above Pasteur’s tomb in the Pasteur Institute:
Blessed is the man who carries in his soul, God, a beautiful ideal that he obeys himself—ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the fatherland, and ideal of gospel virtues. Therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions. (Vallery-Radot 1958, p. 197)
Pasteur was truly a man of Christian character and action. Louis embraced the values of the Gospels throughout his life. His faith came simply and naturally for spiritual help and was most evident in the later stages of this life. Pasteur believed in prayer, the Bible, and the truths of the gospel as his goal. He encouraged others to do the same (Vallery-Radot 1911, vol. 2. p. 240).
https://answersingenesis.org/origin-of-life/louis-pasteurs-views-on-creation-evolution-germs/