Abiogenesis
Abiogenesis ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Greek 'a priv. + bi`os life + ge`nesis, origin, birth.]
(Biology) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.
I shall call the... doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis.