I can't (myself at least) establish that life IS energy any more than you can establish that life ISN'T energy
Where is it known that living beings create energy? I can't, not that I know of anyhow.
Just because something isn't known now, doesn't preclude it from ever being known.
before I was like 8 or 10 or whatever, I didn't know where babies came from, but that doesn't mean when I was told I refused to believe it or that it made it any less a fact.
All of the chemicals needed for human life existed on earth long before humans did, life takes time. Come back and visit your fridge in say... 5-6k years and see how things are going.
If I'm not mistaken mold is a spore, hence a type of lifeform. I never put it in the fridge yet some how it does grow and prosper on my chees and bread.
MY FRIDGE IS GOD!!