All well and good as far as evolution of physical beings goes, but what about the creation of life itself from absolutely nothing? I think this was brought up before but I haven't seen any good answers.
Has anyone come up with an explanation for that?
There is no explanation yet, only hypotheses for how it *might* occur. The moment that life was created on Earth, or its arrival from somewhere else (panspermia), is not an event that can be discovered, because it is not a reoccurring phenomenon. And given the evidence that all life on Earth is related, a successful process seems to have occurred only once. So the only way we'll ever really know how it's done is if people figure out how to recreate the process in a laboratory. Frankly, given the potentially horrible consequences of being able to create life out of inanimate matter, I hope we don't find the answer you're looking for. If you want to believe there was a pre-existing intelligence behind the process, I say fine with me. I can't prove it's wrong. I don't believe that myself, but that's just an opinion. Of course, that begs the question of where that supreme intelligence came from, so the argument gets circular. This was one of the issues, incidentally, that Hoyle was attempting to address. His hypothesis was that the intelligence existed in the infinitely distant future, and did micro-intervention through time (I'm not kidding) to support its existence by affect its past, all of which leads to its own creation.
