As our knowledge of life’s microscopic secrets continues to advance it is instructive to reflect upon the history of the spontaneous generation hypothesis to contemplate whether scientific advancements are indeed progressing as an anti-creationist predicted nearly two decades ago: "If I have made my point, the next time you hear creationists talking about the "impossibility" of making a particular protein, …you can smile wryly and know that they are nowhere near a consideration of the real issues. …Given the rapid rate of progress in our understanding of molecular biology, I have no doubt that satisfactory explanations of the problem posed here soon will be forthcoming" (Doolittle, 1983, p. 96).