Nothing wrong with his statement you know...? While summarizing it to "no earthquake, no life" is not accurate, it's also not wrong. Hence, nothing wrong with Malaysian school.

Earthquakes is of course the platonic movement of the earth, which sometimes causes volcanic eruption, that if you study micro biology, you'll see that, volcanic eruption, underwater and above water has contributed to many new micro lifeforms. Throw evolution in, you get a new species.