...and, or course, the Theory of Evolution, however defined, has nothing to do with the origin of life.
I know many people like to recite the mantra that abiogenesis is not evolution, but its a cop-out. Evolution is about a plurality of natural mechanisms that generate diversity. It includes molecular biases towards certain solutions and chance events that set up potential change as well as selection that refines existing variation. Abiogenesis research proposes similar principles that led to early chemical evolution. Tossing that work into a special-case ghetto that exempts you from explaining it is cheating, and ignores the fact that life is chemistry.
-PZ Myers
And the starting line has nothing to do with the Indianapolis 500.
We can’t explain it so we will just ignore it. Great science.
“...and, or course, the Theory of Evolution, however defined, has nothing to do with the origin of life.”
That’s what is said, but it’s not true.
It is in fact vitalism to believe that way, which is rather ironic.