That's a good question. I can imagine that there was a time before there was life on Earth, and then clearly there was a time X-hundred thousand years or a million years later when there were things that we would all recognize as biological.
A high count indicates the presence of inflammation in the body. Because white blood cells are calculated by the number of cells per volume of blood, test results can vary between labs. Different labs use different degrees of measurements for the white blood cell count.
A high red cells count is caused by a disorder called polycythemia vera. This is a genetic condition that causes the bone marrow to produce too many blood cells, so it is not caused by a liver problem. This disorder sometimes causes high white counts too, so I am not sure why your father's count is low. The second issue is that you don't know what is going on with your father's health.