So my new friend, would you say or form an opinion based on a purely temporal standpoint, that the force which sustains life is that of a secular origination? Whether it (that force) be of this terra firma or beyond could very well fit into such a hypothesis.

Descartes was one of the first to publicly promulgate a form of agnostic dualism, whereas concerning mind and matter being two distinct components of existence. Doesn't all matter originate with thought first? If we are going to build something , design something, or invent something, it must first exist in the mind as an abstract concept. There have been numerous documented instances where inventors hundreds of miles or even thousands of miles apart simultaneously were working on creating/developing the exact same invention. This of course happened in a Time prior to instant communication such as the telegraph.
Many of these inventors and writers gave credit to these thoughts and ideas not to themselves, but an unseen and nonphysical force.
What if the pineal gland serves the temporal body to be the bridge between Divine spiritual and the secular flesh?
That would make man the Union of both spiritual and temporal, and explain so much of the pine cone symbolism.
Man, having both Good and Evil tendencies, is a product of the light and the dark. We are the children caught in the middle of a war between Jehovah and Gadre'el.
This is only one possible explanation, there must be intelligent design. Man, with his scientific knowledge cannot create life, he can only duplicate it. One can clone a plant, an organ, or an animal, in a lab, but they can't give it the animating life that it needs.