The fundamental principle of life coming from life is a truth that does not require human action to unfold. A flower naturally develops according to the wisdom of the Creator, the initial Mover. Left solely to nature, life continues toward its natural end. Only a flower can beget a flower. A bee may assist with pollination, yet a bee never becomes a flower. In the same natural sense, only a human can beget a human.

Natural Law and Science

The greatest scientific minds have illuminated these realities without contradiction between faith and reason. Consider Louis Pasteur, the devout Catholic scientist whose rigorous experiments established the law of biogenesis. Through his famous swan-neck flask experiments in the 1860s, Pasteur conclusively demonstrated that spontaneous generation does not occur under natural conditions, concluding that life arises only from pre-existing life—Omne vivum ex vivo—all life from life.

For human beings, God’s Truth deepens this understanding. While parents contribute the genetic material and the developing body through procreation, the spiritual soul— which grounds human consciousness, intellect, and will— is created immediately by God at the moment of conception. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God— it is not ‘produced’ by the parents —and also that it is immortal.”

The Prime Mover

The cosmos itself points to a beginning and a Prime Mover. The Belgian Catholic priest and physicist Georges Lemaître proposed the “primeval atom” hypothesis in 1931— the foundational idea of what became known as the Big Bang theory. He demonstrated that the universe is expanding and must have originated from an extremely dense initial state at a finite point in time.

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