In 1858, as Louis Pasteur began experimenting on the causes of fermentation in the alcoholic beverage industry of France, accredited academia was still debating the origins of life.  Charles Darwin was at that precise moment documenting his theory on the origins of species, in tandem with Alfred Russel Wallace, but nobody had yet posed a hypothesis for the origins of life itself.

The dominant theory, which we must recognize as theology wrapped in scientific mumbo-jumbo, was “spontaneous generation”.  Spontaneous generation requires some explaining because it has been so thoroughly discredited by the work of Louis Pasteur that no one in accredited academia has pursued “spontaneous generation” since.

That is a shame because, even if there is no Creator after all, spontaneous generation is all that could plausibly account for the manifestation of the first life form.

Spontaneous generation is precisely what it appears to be, the spontaneous generation of a life form the inanimate ambient.

Poof, its alive.

Go on, get the laugher out of your system.

Done?

Good.

Are you certain you got it all out of your system?  I need you to focus here so make sure.

Good, let’s drive on.

Today, in the modern world, evolutionary biologists attempting to explain the manifestation of the first life form uniformly describe an ambient environment favorable to the conditions for life, and adequate chemical constituents to boot strap components or even basic systems of a single cell.

Some propose that ambient was in the atmosphere.  Others propose that ambient was a tidal pool.  Other ambient environments favorable to life include the proverbial primordial ooze, geothermal springs and seabed steam vents.

All of these ambient environments, except the proverbial primordial ooze, share two features in common, a chemical rich environmental context and oscillations of ambient energy levels. 

I favor the seabed steam vents for two reasons.  First, Genesis states very clearly that, although no Christian will confess this as fact, the Earth brought forth life.  Christians will uniformly agree God created life.  I caution believers not to be pedantic since strict adherence to the rhetoric of theology will create barriers to belief in the scientific community.  I appreciate the Genesis of Life literally, not theologically.  In Genesis it clearly says the Word of God determined the sequence of events, but it was first the earth, and next the ocean which brought forth life.  Read Genesis.

To my colleagues in the biology department, I advise you do the same, for where a verbatim reading of Genesis is all that is under consideration, no evolutionary biologist can claim they were the first to identify geology as the cradle of life.

And that is precisely what science has since confirmed.  Geologists, not biologists, have confirmed that life forms can and do manifest in the most unfathomable depths of the earth.  And, while we are all preconditioned to believe life requires oxygen and sunlight, that is not at all true.

The first forms of life were chemosynthetic, not photosynthetic.  In fact, meteorologists have long known this, or at least should have known this.  The earth’s atmosphere, you see, did not allow enough sunlight to penetrate to the earth’s surface to permit photosynthesis until well after life had manifest itself on our planet.

The Law of Superposition is inviolable.  You can’t have photosynthesis until you have sunlight.  Period.  End of story.

The earliest forms of life undoubtedly formed as chemosynthetic life forms.

Full stop.  Red flag on the field.  

The Skeptics are charging me with non-sequitur because we are examining the genesis of life and I have just set it on the stage without cause.

I stand corrected.

In the theater of the absurd, where we remove God from the equation, we must accept the following: Life could only form as a direct result of chemical, mechanical and energy work performed at some nexus.  This implies, no, this nearly guarantees that Life itself is an inevitability found within the Laws of Chemistry, Laws of Mechanics and laws of Physics.

Allow me to reiterate the observation I just made. 

The Laws of Quantum Physics determine the Laws of Atomic Physics.  The Laws of Atomic Physics determines the Laws of Molecular Physics.  The Laws of Molecular Physics determine the Laws of Chemistry.  The Laws of Chemistry determines the Laws of Fluid Dynamics.  The Laws of Fluid Dynamics determine the Laws of Microbiology Biology.

The Laws governing the domains of the physical world are arrayed in an Order of Precedence which, combined in hierarchical harmony, make the manifestation of Life inevitable.  Life is, therefore, implicit in every law governing the universe until it becomes explicit on a life-bearing planet.

For my Atheists and Agnostic colleagues who insist there is no Creator, there is no use denying the miracle of life, even in our current state of ignorance.  Just don’t mistake me for proposing the Order of Precedence as just stated.

Hindu scholars long ago characterized the Creator as the Eternal Cause of All Causes.  The Creator, when and if we ever prove He exists, will prove to be just that, the Eternal Cause of All Causes.  Exploring Hindu cosmogony further, we discover that Hindu Theology implicitly asserts the hierarchical Order of Precedence in iconography illustrating concepts in Hindu science.

I offer the Mandala of Hindu theology is precisely that, an illustration of cascading domains of the physical world emanating from the Eternal Cause of Causes at the center of all things, and manifesting the quanta, atomic, molecular, chemical, material and biological domains of existence.

If Hinduism is not your cup of tea, I refer you to Islamic descriptions of the essence of the Creator in the Verse of Light, Koran (24:35).

God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, The lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star, Lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, Neither of the east nor of the west, Whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. God guides to His light whom He wills.  And God presents examples for the people, and God is knowing of all things.

The Verse of Light is attempting to describe, from our perspective looking inward, the domains of material existence and the Creator at its ultimate center, the axiomatic domain of existence.

Even 1858 this will have been a perplexing concept to grasp, but modern physics has already proven the existence of domains of physical existence Arabic Scholars were instructing on thousands of years ago. 

Before we all dive into that rabbit hole, let’s stay focused on the spontaneous generation theory of the origins of life.  Just because it seems silly to suggest that Life just happed, poof it appeared, that is precisely where all the physical sciences are leading at this very moment.  I grant you, this subject is hotly debated, but the only alternatives to spontaneous generation all include the introduction of Life from a source external to our planet.

That is no explanation at all, just a bit of intellectual slight of mind, for if Life was introduced to our planet by an asteroid or aliens, where did asteroids or aliens get the Life they delivered?

You can’t avoid the question by imagining the answer “out there” somewhere.

No, I don’t believe Life spontaneously generated.  I believe life was Created, for if Life is an inevitability encoded within the Axiomatic Law of the Universe, then the Axiomatic Law of the Universe Creates Life.

I anticipate that accredited academia will soon come to an agreement on this Maxim of Physics.  I am just not convinced accredited academia will all agree that the Axiomatic Law of the Universe is a sentient, intelligent Lifeform referred to as God in all cosmogonies on the planet.

There will always be a Louis Pasteur.

Louis Pasteur was engaging in this precise debate in 1858 when he discovered that microbial forms of life were responsible for turning grape juice into wine or vinegar.  Other forms of microbial life, Pasteur later confirmed, were responsible for turning milk into cheese, or spoiling it completely.

In fact, in 1858, Louis Pasteur was so close to proving that microbial life caused diseases in humans that tens of thousands of soldiers could have been saved in a Civil War fought over the origins of species.

That is correct, though Louis Pasteur could not know it, the American Civil War was not about slavery or state’s rights at all.  The American Civil War was about who did and who did not have a soul.

Though no high school textbook admits the fact, the leading scholars of universities in the rebellious south had gotten their hands on Darwin’s Origins of Species and Karl Marx’s The German Ideology.  The two, in combination with each other, were deadly.  Das Kapital would not be published until 1867, four years after the American Civil War was concluded in favor of the Classical School, but the key concepts of capitalism were in wide circulation among southern scholars.

Agnostics in southern universities leaped headlong into Atheism and Classical Scholars retreated into Theology.  In 1858 battle lines in the Ivory Tower were not just being drawn, they were being withdrawn.

Newly forged Atheists at Rebel Universities began pointing their fingers at the industrial north, decrying northern workers as “wage slaves” and charging Abolitionists with hypocrisy.  The argument being made by Rebel Scholars was a.) Africans were a sub-species of hominid at best and, b.) were better cared for than northern “wage slaves” even if they were not a sub-species of hominid.

Slavers, borrowing the new morality form Karl Marx, were arguing that slavery achieved the scientific optimal: “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need”.  Slaves, rebel Scholars argued in support of this sadism, were provided everything they needed while unemployed northern workers died of starvation.

Evolutionary biology, in combination with social evolution, became the scientific pillars on which the Planters sought to promote and extend the practice.

Few today realize that slavery was to be promoted as the social optimal by the Confederacy if they had emerged victorious, but that is the sadistic truth.  In truth, though the history books insist the Civil War was fought to end slavery, that only holds true for the motives of Union Abolitionists.  Union Abolitionists did not start the war, they merely finished it.

Do not believe what your teachers in high school taught you.  The American Civil War was the first Socialist Revolution in world history, and we narrowly defeated it.

But this would all constitute foresight in 1858, the year Louis Pasteur peered into Ibn Sahl’s improved telescope and discovered microbes were causing “diseases of wine” and “diseases of milk”.

Pasteur openly postulated, though never proved, that microbes may also be causing “diseases in humans”.