Evolution of Spiritual Nature

Does this sit well in anyone's gut?

It shouldn't because anyone who's ever watched a developing (pick a species) can imagine their
'will' spurring the fledgling to develop a capacity for action. It begins as a struggle, continues as
conscious effort, and with practice becomes a mastered ability - more reflexive than counscious.
I'm not going to suggest that part of that process isn't written in genetic code, but I do proffer
that there is a component of 'spirit' involved. Herd animals walk within minutes of being born.
First there's an effort to stand. Then on shakey legs it tries to reach Mom to nurse and very soon
it's walking along with the herd. Except for the few that are born fully formed and yet for some
unknown reason, don't make the effort. Is that also in their DNA or do they just lack the will?

Which comes first . . . the will to live or the egg that becomes a living form?

Only a fertilized egg can become a living thing. We know that sperm and egg cells each contain
half of the DNA needed for a new life to begin. DNA is something physical that we can observe,
analyze and experiment with. I'll go along with DNA providing the blueprint for the structure and
function or the egg and sperm, but I don't think DNA can account for only one sperm penetrating
an egg cell. If all of the sperm are "programmed" for the same purpose they should continue their
quest and the egg would logically be more vulnerable after the first sperm found a weak spot in
the egg's membrane. But that doesn't happen. Once the egg is fertilized she procedes to become
attached to the uterine wall and gestation begins. One explanation could be that the moment of
conception has been encoded in such a way as to render the egg unappealing to the other sperm.
Another is that the successful sperm communicates to the others and they abandon their quest.
I'm not talking about intelligible communication but something more like an intuition or feeling.

Is there a quantum level to Life similar to the quantum level of physical matter?

Science has never even been close to sparking Life in even the simplest cell. Maybe that's
because Life is a continuum rather than a series of discreet packets. Life begets life. It doesn't
start and end and start and end. Individual forms of life may be discreet packets, but the actual
force and energy of Life is continuous. Force and energy are not tangible physical things. We
can sense them, intuit them, and measure their effects, but they're of a different nature than what's
material. It's hard to say force, energy and materiality are of a different substance because of what
physicists tell us about the interchangibility of matter and energy, but I think it's fair to say that
their different states do present us with different natures. Animate matter and inanimate matter are
unquestionably of the same substance yet unquestionably of very different natures. Maybe that's
because living matter is not only effected by the inanimate fundamental forces and energy of the
physical world, but also by animate forces and energies of a spiritual nature. I don't see this as
dualistic so much as synergistic. I'm not saying that sperm and egg cells have minds, souls and
bits of consciousness. Just that they have a yen for Life and taste of the who(s) they came from.

Could intercellular sommunication funtions similarly to quantum entanglement?