Outgrown Purpose, Outlived Use: On Parasitic Teleology

Every beginning to a discussion of the beginning of life betrays the central problematic of itself — namely a tension between the miraculous and the arbitrary (where to start the discussion of the start of living things). Satisfactory explanations of life are measured against the apparent limitless complexity and variety of its forms. Of course, to claim life exceeds explanation is itself a form of explanation since no one who would make such a claim would in turn argue that life can be intuitively understood, despite the fact it can be accidentally made. In other words, how would one backup the