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4- Sense of false ownership

5- Material concep on of life thinking life’s goal is sense gra fica on,
especially sexual indulgence, and a er death one ceases to exist. Alter-

nately, if one may exist a er death, it is to enjoy uninhibited sexual
pleasure in some sort of heavenly context.

All these aspects of ignorance give rise to irra onal false concepts such
as life comes from dead chemicals. This fallacious concept along with
Darwin’s specula ons about the origin of species have mislead people
for more than 150, years, yet most people s ll believe them. Such
wrong specula ve theories are taught in most schools.

However, real scien sts have disproven these specula ve theories. At
the same me that Darwin was seeking a theory of the origin of spe-
cies, Louis Pasteur was pondering the ques on of spontaneous genera-
on, that is life just appears all of a sudden when material condi ons
are favorable. So-called scien sts would place a piece of meat exposed
to air and a er some days maggots would appear. They claimed this
was proof of spontaneous genera on from exposure to air. Pasteur

disproved this theory by proving that microscopic germs, microbes or
yeasts carried by the air caused the growth of organisms on any natu-
ral nutrient source exposed to air.

Pasteur used flasks with swan-shaped necks. He poured a broth into
the flask and boiled it so that the super-hot vapor filled the swan neck.
Then he sealed the swan-neck hole so that no air could enter the flask.
He observed through his microscope that no bacteria grew in the flask

a er a very long me.

He repeated the experiment, but the second me he removed the
swan neck and let air which naturally carried dust, enter the flask. A er
some me, he examined the broth and no ced bacteria present. He
performed a third experiment with a fermentable liquid in the flask
that he boiled. Air was allowed to enter through the swan-neck that

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