creation of the universe.

this has been bugging me lately, I guess because it's a question without answer (yet).

How was the Universe born? It seems all so impossible, and yet here we are. Anyone else bothered by these thoughts sometimes?

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Mendel's work was critical to genetics, but he wasn't appreciated until some hundred yrs after his death.

I still fail to see how Darwin's work is important, except for taxonomy.  How is it relevant to biochem?  Does it tell us anything about why ethanol causes inebriation?  Why methanol is toxic?