The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

Episode 1690 December 21, 2022 00:35:10
The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith
Intelligent Design the Future
The 200th Birthday of Louis Pasteur: A Man of Science and Faith

Dec 21 2022 | 00:35:10

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Show Notes

December 27, 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur, the French scientist whose scientific breakthroughs have saved millions of lives, and whose work on microbes sounded the death knell of the idea of spontaneous generation. On this episode of ID the Future, biologist Ann Gauger walks listeners through the triumphs, flaws, and tragedies in the life of this extraordinary individual. In the nineteenth century, it was widely believed that the spontaneous generation of life from non-life was common and unremarkable, since it was thought that spontaneous generation of worms, mold, and other life forms occurred all the time in rotting meat and dirty rags. Pasteur constructed an experiment demonstrating that these “spontaneously” arising worms and such Read More ›

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