Out of the Dark Ages. That was the idea that if you threw a bunch of clothes in a corner, after a time it would turn into mice. If you kept some old flour for a time, it would change into worms. Of course, that superstition was not true. We all know that everything alive ultimately had to come from something else that was alive.
Parents have babies, and they grow up and have more babies.
Mice make nests in clothes, and insects lay eggs in grain. That is impossible, and knowledgeable chemists declare the idea to be utter foolishness. In order for life to arise from nonlife, there would have to be immediate and total success. Immediate reproduction needed. 1 - Chemical compounds and laboratories .