[Brooklyn Attitude]

“”If I read your post correctly,
you’re asserting that darwinists are firm in their assertions that life has to originate on Earth?””

“I would say it’s the opposite. In order to “prove” evolution, they’d want to show that if it happened here, it could happen elsewhere, and ET life of any sort would show that.”

Evolution and the origin of life are 2 different things.

[MrB]

Indeed, evolutionists shy far away from the origins issue,
and extrapolate observed adaptation into something they don’t observe.

[muawiyah]

You are confounding "darwinists" with your run of the mill modern biologist who consider himself other than a "darwinist" ~ but they still exist and aren't out of the 'common origin' requirement yet.

Occasionally you'll hear one of these guys say he's not a "darwinist" ~ which allows him to ponder just what is going on in epigenetics and methylation, and how that may be at the root of the whole DNA mutation business.

http://www.rochester.edu/College/BIO/labs/WerrenLab/WerrenPapers-PDF/1998_Werren_WolbSpeciation.pdf ~ I put in this paper from 15 years ago because this is the discovery that put the sword to Sexual Selection as the root cause of specieation in mammals and bugs.