Today's scientific instruments tell us, according to page 284 of Steve Jones "Darwin's Ghost" that ...
About a thousand genes are shared by every organism, however simple or complicated. Although their common ancestor must have lived more than a billion years ago, their shared structure can still be glimpsed. It shows how the grand plan of life has been modified through the course of evolution."
I am impressed that the Sex Pistol’s guitarist knows so much about molecular biology.
Still, he’s not quite correct in his description. The thousand or so genes are not shared in that they are not the same but are orthologs. They vary greatly from each other among species and throughout phyla. The gene products share the greatest conservation of structure among these thousand or so genes and retain among themselves properties of primary, secondary and tertiary structure and often retain function over the continuum of “simple” to “complicated” organisms.
These observations hardly are a “theory of life and the universe”.
Again more extraordinary parallels between science and the Genesis creation narrative.
Genesis goes from day 5 birds and fish... To day 6 animals and then humans.
What commonalities between human and non human organisms can’t explain is the theory that the 250+ proteins that are necessary to form a single cell organism were forms by random chance. In addition, there is no proof anywhere in physics to demonstrate that an effect can in fact be greater than its cause.
The idea that something can come from nothing simply contradicts physical laws of motion and the massive amount of evidence that the universe had a beginning several billion years ago.
At the end of the day you can except a supernatural cause for the universe and maintain the laws of physics or you can reject both. One makes little sense without the other.