Given below are two statements. One is labelled Assertion (A) and the other is labelled Reason (R).

Statement I : The Earth is 4000 years old according to the theory of special creation.
Statement II : Life came out of decaying and rotting matter according to the theory of spontaneous generation.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Both statement I and statement II are correct.

Statement I: "The Earth is 4000 years old according to the theory of special creation." - This statement is correct. The theory of special creation, which posits that life and the Earth were created in their present form by a divine entity relatively recently, typically within a few thousand years, conflicts with scientific evidence. 

Statement II: "Life came out of decaying and rotting matter according to the theory of spontaneous generation." - This statement is correct. The theory of spontaneous generation, which suggested that living organisms could arise from non-living matter such as decaying organic material, has been disproven by scientific experiments. Louis Pasteur and others conducted experiments in the 19th century that demonstrated that living organisms only arise from pre-existing life through processes like reproduction.