Love these conversations...just an aside:  it would make me very sad if it was easy "to create life" (in a lab, for example)...but, I am not sad, I am happy, because of something another great English mind (Chris Hitchens) came up with: (a Socratic idea) "the more inquiries we make into the substance/nature of things the more questions arise, and the more we realize we don't know" (paraphrased)