>>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.
As a matter of fact, there is.
The Earth itself provides some evidence.
Given 4.5 billion years in emerging from some unknown but likely catastrophic astronomical event, life is now present on our evolving Earth.