[ex-snook]

"If physics, geology, chemistry and astronomy are not compelled to answer the question of abiogenesis as a prerequisite, neither is TToE."

Nope no escape. If they make the 'no creator theory' that evolution does they have to answer for the existence of matter as well as life.

[freedumb2003]

>>Nope no escape. If they make the ‘no creator theory’ that evolution does they have to answer for the existence of matter as well as life.<<

Since TToE makes no such representation, it is on par with its fellow branches of science.