What Is Missing Here?

   Over the past 40 years or more, a sure way to get a government grant for research is to propose studying the process by which one species morphs into another.  This elusive process lies at the very heart of the credibility of evolutionary theory which claims to account for the bewildering complexity of life that we see on our planet.  Yet after countless "studies" costing the taxpayer billions of dollars, this process (if there is one) has never been discovered;
   It occurs to me that the reason the process has never been discovered is that there is no process at all and new species arise from a totally different source
   It must be noted that species do not differ from each other by subtle variations in the DNA.  Rather, they differ by billions of individual instruction sets.  A forensic pathologists can quickly determine if a strand of hair is from a gorilla or a human.  A complex instruction set for hair exists in all mammals, but none of them are the same.  In an evolutionary process by which one species morphed into another, one would expect to find some of the instruction sets to be identical, thus proving that there is a rational bond that definitively binds one species to another.
   If there is no process which brought about this incredible diversity of life that we see, what could be the cause?  Keep in mind that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
   As an observer of living things (including myself) it seems apparent that all living things "know" that they are living and that they must survive.  For any "survival-of-the-fittest" scenario to have meaning, creatures must first "know" that they are supposed to survive.  If we have tickets to see the Rolling Stones next month, we "know" that, even if we are  not supposed to survive until next month, we at least know that we want to.   The birds, mice, lizards, algae, do not have tickets to future enjoyable events, but they, nevertheless, seem to be actively engaged in behavior which will enable them to survive.
   One cannot say that this apparent survival "knowledge" could have evolved simply because it would have had to come first.  In other words, no purposeful behavior could have come before the purpose.
   What does all of this mean?
   It seems that life is a result of a pervasive purpose which emanates from some unknown source.  This is very troubling to thorough-going evolutionary theorists who have made the leap of faith to the conclusion that all of life arose as a result of "natural" processes, and, even though this process has yet to be identified, the ideology of evolutionary theory is openly taught as fact to our children and acted upon as cultural and moral relativism.
   I would like to see a study proposed which has as its stated goal, to prove the source of this "life force."   Funding would likely be slow in coming.