These debates never seem to resolve themselves. Just to be clear on the matter, evolution doesn't claim to descibe the origins of life itself or of the universe. Evolution is just the process of speciation.
That's a typical cop-out of Evolutionists. It's all the same garbage.
The first living thing, would by definition, have to be a species.
So, the great theory about the "Origin of Species" would therefore have to explain the origin of the very first one.
I can understand people in the 19th century buying into evolution, when they were almost entirely ignorant of the enormous complexity of living things, and believed that the universe was eternal.
But to believe in evolution in the 21st century, requires brain washing and blind faith.