If a spontaneous beginning for life is to be accepted as scientific fact,
it should be established by the scientific method. This has been described
as follows: Observe what happens; based on those observations, form a
theory as to what may be true; test the theory by further observations and
by experiments; and watch to see if the predictions based on the theory
are fulfilled.

In an attempt to apply the scientific method, it has not been possible to
observe the spontaneous generation of life. There is no evidence that it
is happening now, and of course no human observer was around when
evolutionists say it was happening. No theory concerning it has been
verified by observation. Laboratory experiments have failed to repeat it.
Predictions based on the theory have not been fulfilled. With such an
inability to apply the scientific method, is it honest science to elevate
such a theory to the level of fact?

On the other hand, there is ample evidence to support the conclusion that
the spontaneous generation of life from nonliving matter is not possible.
"One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task," Professor Wald
of Harvard University acknowledges, "to concede that the spontaneous
generation of a living organism is impossible." But what does this
proponent of evolution actually believe? He answers: "Yet here we are-as a
result, I believe, of spontaneous generation. Does that sound like
objective science?

British biologist Joseph Henry Woodger characterized such reasoning as
"simple dogmatism-asserting that what you want to believe did in fact
happen."28 How have scientists come to accept in their own minds this
apparent violation of the scientific method? The well-known evolutionist
Loren Eiseley conceded: "After having chided the theologian for his
reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable
position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the
assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place
today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past."
Based on the evidence, the spontaneous generation of life theory appears
better to fit the realm of science fiction than scientific fact. Many
supporters apparently have forsaken the scientific method in such matters
in order to believe what they want to believe. In spite of the
overwhelming odds against life originating by chance, unyielding dogmatism
prevails rather than the caution normally signaled by the scientific
method.