As expected, you appear to be conflating the origin of life with the origin of species. You, and Meyer, thus destroy a strawman of someone else’s creation.
Darwin’s theory is that gradual changes accumulate, until they have reached a point that the original material is quite obviously distinguishable from its umpteenth-generation offspring. Scientists of all stripes accept this without argument, and must logically do so, because it is by definition necessary; two related species, if not the same, must have accumulated changes that then distinguish them from each other.
But it is always easier to refute or disparage a contention that Darwin never made; that life assembled itself here. I know someone who promulgates that contention, but it wasn’t Darwin.
“As expected, you appear to be conflating the origin of life with the origin of species.”
Actually I’m not. There are two things that biologists have no explanations for. The origin of life and big changes (morphological, systemic) in life.
Darwin himself had no explanation for the origin of life and thus he did not claim that his evolution theory explained how life began. I and Meyer understand that. Darwin ASSUMED the existence of life but claimed that his theory explained subsequent changes and developments.
But Darwin himself had some doubts about his theory because of the Cambrian Explosion and the lack of any previous fossil records that would have led to it. He thought that in due time new fossil discoveries would prove him right. Well as of today such has not been the case. And as I mentioned in my post, Meyer is not the only one who has serious doubts. Many other biologists have come out with various modification to the theory (including Gould, and others), all have proven inadequate.
I understand that the origin of life problem is not related to Darwinian evolution. A different type of evolution for the origin of life is suggested by materialists - one that relies on serendipity (the primordial soup with all the appropriate elements, energy, and chemical forces), and subsequently a Darwinian type of evolution of “survival of the fittest” resulting products of this soup. This was Alexander Oparin’s theory. (See Ch 2 of “Signature in the Cell”). Meyer blows out of the water both Darwin and Oparin.
Have you read Meyer’s books?