Scientists notoriously struggle with an explanation for the origins and destiny of life on earth. In the past week or so some novel suggestions have emerged. As for origins, life spread from other planets – we descend from aliens (here). The primordial soup theory might be correct, it just might not be an earth bound soup. In a galaxy far far away a soup produced an organism that hopped on an asteroid and traveled to other planets, including our own, and infected them with living things. Of course this doesn’t explain life; it merely tries to tell a convincing story as to how rocks don’t breathe and animals do. If…