Ake, the figures you speak of are carefully selected and interpreted by you, not unlike a person with a particular religious viewpoint carefully "cherry-picking" Biblical verses and putting them together in an attempt to provide a Scriptural basis for his particular belief. You're the one who's doing the wriggling

I take it, then, that you actually do believe in spontaneous generation? If so, I'd suggest you take it up with Louis Pasteur, who finally put that persistent medieval belief to rest once and for all back in 1864.

Don Firth