George Wald was a distinguished biochemist at Harvard who later shared the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. Modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing. If biology had followed Pasteur's paradigm instead of Darwin's, and if Cosmic Ancestry were the prevailing theory today, the mechanical theory of nature would be sufficient to account for evolution and the origin of life on Earth. There would be no need for supernatural intervention. But neither science nor religion seems interested in Cosmic Ancestry as an alternative.
Most biologists are so committed to neo-Darwinism that they treat any alternative as unscientific.
And creationists are quite happy if the scientific alternative is constrained to be neo-Darwinism. A gridlock has been reached. In one important respect Cosmic Ancestry is fundamentally different from both mainstream science and the prevailing western religions. Both hold that life arises and evolves from simpler beginnings. Science explains this process with material causes, religions do so with supernatural causes.