What started life?

In asking, what started life? you have landed on the "dirty little secret" of evolution. Evolution accounts for change. It doesn't provide an account of the origin of life in general. Some outspoken proponents of evolution will tend to gloss over this limitation of the theory. In place of a scientifically based theory they will suggest that life originated as an accident of organic chemistry where the organic compounds accidentally got so complicated that they crossed the threshold from nonliving to living. Personally, I disagree with this account. I argue that there are good reasons to suggest that there never was a time in which there was no living thing. While certain forms of life such as bacteria and single and multi cell organisms have not always existed, other more basic forms have. Now, what are these more basic forms, and what do I mean by a living thing in this context? Life is characterized by the ability to introduce novelty into actuality. The more basic forms are those minute entities that are present throughout the universe and that account for the observed "uncertainty " in quantum mechanics. These entities, I argue, are basic life forms that have always existed. This pushes the question of the origin of life off our planet and back to the Big Bang. Now, since the Big Bang produced novelty, we could also say that it exhibits the capacity to introduce novelty into actuality too. Hence, all of creation is alive.