Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

What is the point of developing theories about the evolution of something when we don’t even know what is allegedly evolving, how it came into existence, and how life was imparted to it? Wouldn’t it make more sense to find out what life is than to theorize about how it supposedly evolves once it mysteriously appears? Yet the origin of life is almost universally avoided in treatises about evolution, as is the origin of time, space, and matter. For example, the index to Gould’s book Wonderful Life, about the Burgess shale, has no reference at all to origins. Nor does Crick’s The Astonishing Hypothesis, or Hitchens’s God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. In their book, Biology Revisioned, Willis W. Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris make several brave but unsuccessful attempts both to define and to explain the origin of life. The best they can do is to describe what living things do but not what they are, much less how life came out of the total death left by the heat of the Big Bang.