Did it? Sure, it’s clear cut now. But what I’ve read about the subject says that back in the days when it was a matter of mainstream intellectual debate, it was long and very messy, and included things like scientists on the ‘right’ side accepting extremely dodgy evidence for spontaneous generation of life in the test tube because they felt that to reject it would weaken the case for being able to do without divine intervention.
Did it? Sure, it’s clear cut now. But what I’ve read about the subject says that back in the days when it was a matter of mainstream intellectual debate, it was long and very messy, and included things like scientists on the ‘right’ side accepting extremely dodgy evidence for spontaneous generation of life in the test tube because they felt that to reject it would weaken the case for being able to do without divine intervention.