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Of course it does. It posits that everything came into being through the mechanism of enormous amounts of time, endless combinations of chance/probability, and the presence of matter, which is apparently deemed eternal.

Wrong. It posits that existing diverse life on earth originated from common ancestry. That's it. It doesn't even lay claim to the origin of the ancestral life forms from which everything descended. It makes no claims as to the origin of anything beyond that, including manner. Evolution does not claim that matter is "eternal"; this is a strawman that you have invented so that you can "prove" a point because you can't make it by addressing what evolution actually is.

Wrong. It posits that existing diverse life on earth originated from common ancestry. That's it. It doesn't even lay claim to the origin of the ancestral life forms from which everything descended. It makes no claims as to the origin of anything beyond that, including manner. Evolution does not claim that matter is "eternal"

You cannot have it both ways. You say it teaches that the existing diverse life on earth originated from common ancestry. Very well. By what process, I ask? By a mechanism which no one has ever seen in action, no one can explain, for which no evidence exists, etc...?

If you propose this irrational explanation, why should I or anyone else believe what you say regarding what evolution supposedly does or doesn't say about the origin of life? Change over time is but one facet of the grand lie of evolution.

Where did the common ancestral life forms come from? Did they evolve too? From what?