Just noticed this …
This is a manifestation of what I refer to as the “Pasteur Canard”. Louis Pasteur proposed, after examining the results of various well-documented experiments, a “Law of Biogenesis”, which, at bottom, stated that living organisms only arise from other living organisms.
However, one has to recognise Pasteur’s intent when pursuing these experiments, which was to falsify the mediaeval notion of spontaneous generation. Those experiments were aimed at falsifying the postulates thereof, not any postulates about the chemical origins of the first living organisms.
For those unfamiliar with the mediaeval notion of spontaneous generation, this consisted, at bottom, of a ridiculous notion, asserting that fully formed multicellular eukaryote organisms arose directly from dust or some similar inanimate medium. A pertinent example being the assertion that mice emerged from dirty wheat, instead of simply finding their way into grain stores from outside and proliferating on the bounty helpfully provided by mediaeval farmers.
However, creationists have been all over this like flies around a fresh turd, as can be imagined, and not only commit the appeal to authority fallacy when pressing this into service in their duplicitous apologetics, but miss the point entirely. Namely, that first, the modern theory of abiogenesis did not exist when Pasteur erected this law; second, the modern theory of abiogenesis does not postulate the sort of nonsense that abounded in mediaeval times (and which, incidentally, was accepted by supernaturalists in that era); and third, as a methodologically rigorous empiricist, Pasteur would wholeheartedly accept the large quantity of evidence provided by modern abiogenesis researchers if he were still alive.
I’ve had 13 years of encounters with the usual suspects to dig up this material. 