Life — How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?

'Life &mdash; How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?' is a book published in 1985 by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.

The book sets out to answer the supposed question of whether life originated through evolution or creation. However, as with many anti-evolution texts, Life confuses the theory of evolution (concerned with the development of life) with abiogenesis (hypotheses concerning the origin of life). As the theory of evolution itself makes no claims about the origin of life the book attempts to answer a non-existent question.

Life consists primarily of a series of mined quotes and appeals to authority. It is a good source of creationist claims, mostly based on arguments from incredulity, on topics that include abiogenesis, transitional fossils, mutation, fine-tuned universe, evidence of design, and doubt about evolution.

As evidence of the inadequacies of evolution, the authors of Life rely heavily on quotes from J. Francis Hitching, who they identify as an "evolutionist", though in reality he is simply a sensationalist author. Other quotes in Life come from The Neck of the Giraffe, a book which discredits creationism as much or more than it does evolution.

As an example of reliance on Hitching, Life makes the unreferenced claim:

This argument quite obviously comes from Hitching's discussion of the subject:

However, Hitching indicated he was quoting directly from Impact, a monthly Institute for Creation Research publication. Thus the argument based on acknowledgments from "evolutionists" in fact comes from a creationist. There are other similar examples of misattribution in Life.