Darwin's "Origin of the Species" contains fourteen chapters, four of which containing the words "Geological" or "Geographical."
The Jones book is a modern update of Darwin's work, and Jones' fourteen chapters duplicate Darwin's original titles.
In my opinion, the entire universe is evolving.
>>In my opinion, the entire universe is evolving.<<
It is and God knows (literally) into what. But He is consistent in that whatever evolves does so according to rules, even evolving rules.
I am just heading off at the pass the idea that TToE is somehow linked to abiogenesis.
Darwin was an intelligent man and I suspect his approach to Geology had more to do with the parallel observations in the Earth as seen in living creatures.
But the pursuit of the study of TToE is truly independent of Geology and the like.
when did species stop producing their own kind?