The law of biogenesis: Pasteur's (and others) empirical results were summarized in the phrase, Omne vivum ex vivo (or Omne vivum ex ovo, Latin for "all life [is] from life", also known as the "law of biogenesis". They showed that life does not currently spontaneously arise in its present forms from non-life in nature. The "law of biogenesis" is not to be confused with Ernst Haeckel's Biogenetic Law. [1] [2] No life has ever been observed to arise from non-living matter. However, the Miller-Urey experiment did show that amino acids, and other subsequent organic compounds, can be synthesized from simple carbon atoms in the early earth conditions. From wikipedia.org Oh JP once again you jump to conclusions based on incomplete data. The Miller exiperiment is still questioned by many scientists and for a long time completely reputed due to lack of evidence. In other words Miller stacked the deck. He used the circular reasoning that "well this is what we need to do to create amino acids, so this is what the Earth must have been like, so it is this Earth that created the amino acids" Recently there is more evidence to suggest that Miller could have been right about early Earth bu nothing has been confirmed. And it still leaves the glaring gap that amino acids do not imply life. In other words, an amino acid is not alive.