[michaelmrose]

Why would you need to go back to the formation of matter to understand how life formed billions of years later?

[mensetmanusman]

Because the existent of hydrogen might be more unlikely than the existence of the resulting life.

[michaelmrose]

What does that have to do with it. When you want to figure out what the climate was like 2000 years ago the existence of a mountain might be relevant but explaining it's formation millions of years ago is not required.