Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

How could Jastrow or any other astronomer know this, when by his own admission “the curtain drawn over the mystery of creation will never be raised by human efforts”? And how could “every living creature” have been “planted in that first instant” that totally sterilized everything? No life could possibly come out of the ball of fire he describes, or the law of biogenesis is a lie! Nor could Jastrow offer any sensible reasons why we should accept his scenario.