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There's lots of life that didnt survive to reproduce, which could be called "failure". Of course, it doesnt stack up in piles for ever and ever. it returns to 'dust', so to speak.
Science confirms what the Bible teaches that there is a beginning and a end to the universe. That is what the Big Bang Theory is all about, that the universe does have a beginning. Even if the universe is expanding and shrinking, there is a beginning and a end to the cycle and there is a finite amount of energy in the universe. To keep the universe going you would need to bring energy in from outside of the universe.
I really use to wonder what happened to the bits and bytes when we deleted them off of the computer. So what keeps the successful attempts from turning into dust? What gives them life?
I have a friend, that grows Delia Plants. They started off with two plants and a lot of plants grow but are a failure because they are deformed. But they are still a plant and would leave as much of a record as the successful plants do. They just do not reproduce as well. So is this why 95 % of the species are extinct? They were some sort of a failure?
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I dont think poor-reproducing variations would even become a species, unless they found some niche of low competition.
What would a failed attempt look like? How might we observe it? How might we test and measure it?
The observable universe had a beginning, and will have an end (of sorts). You don't know what does or does not exist beyond what we can observe. You don't know what, if anything, existed 'before' the Big Bang, as much as that is even conceptually possible. And you don't know what will come afterwards.
Accoirding to Schroeder the frequency of isolated spiral galaxies is: one galaxy in ten or .1%. Yet there are many many thing unique about our Earth and it's position in our solar system along with the moon. Even though the Universe is very much the same elements and laws there is at best could only be 10,000 planets like our earth. So the situation we have here on Earth is very rare. The distance from the sun, the size of the sun, the size of the earth, the size of the moon. The position of the other planets all play a part in the way life on earth evolved. Even we are unique when you consider the minerals we have and the water we have here on earth. We are perhaps a crown jewel for God and it's no wonder the battle ended up here. Between God and the forces that oppose Him.
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I had a dream when I was around 12 where God showed me the universe was expanding and eventually at some point at time the universe will begin to come back together, what they call the Big Crunch. Even if the universe were to go through a growing and shrinking cycle at some point the crunch would bring time to an end. Even if when the universe began to expand again then time would begin again. So you still have alpha and omega, the end and the beginning. You can not have an end without a beginning and a beginning without an end.
Gerald Schroeder. But I am reading his most recent book so you may not find to much about it on the internet.
