Descartes cause and effect

“… the “Causal Adequacy Principle” [and] is expressed as follows: “there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause,” which in turn implies that something cannot come from nothing.” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

From this it can be clearly seen that a ‘static’ cannot be cause of dynamic life, as life is energy and motion, which is by definition unavailable in a static.