The Origin Illusion: How Dawkins Is Wrong About the Beginning of Life

By Evan Farr Smith

Evolution is often presented as a complete answer to life's origin. Given enough time, simple chemistry becomes complex, complexity becomes organized, and life appears.

But there is a problem.

Evolution explains how life changes. It does not explain how life begins.

Before natural selection can act, there must already exist a system capable of replication, information storage, and coordinated function. Without it, evolution has nothing to operate on-and that starting point remains unexplained.

The Origin Illusion examines this gap directly.

Through clear reasoning and careful analysis, it explores the limits of current explanations and asks a deeper question: if life requires information, coordination, and awareness, what kind of cause is sufficient to account for it?

This is not an argument against science.
It is an argument for completeness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GVZFZHMP
• ISBN13: 9798254787747
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"