When it comes to the origin of matter (or the origin of life itself) - the foundation of all theories of origin - Orthodox Darwinists are stuck with "duh, we don't know". Evolutionists find themselves in the same boat as those that believe in a designer - something existed forever or something sprang forth from nothing - both are miracles (supernatural based on our current knowledge of the natural)
True, but they'll hype the research that shows 'life goo' arising from chemical mixtures and hope that the unlearned will made the connection in his brain that somehow the goo turned into living matter.
Then we are off to the races!!!
So the Darwinists are in the same boat with the engineers, baseball umpires, orchestra conductors, podiatrists and traffic cops. Their field of expertise does not include the origins of the universe.
Evolutionary theory does not answer the question of the origins of matter because that's not what it's about. When a child asks his mother where babies come from, it's not a cosmological question.
Evolutionists find themselves in the same boat as those that believe in a designer - something existed forever or something sprang forth from nothing - both are miracles (supernatural based on our current knowledge of the natural)
Either supernatural, or just beyond the scope of our current knowledge. Some people who believe in the account in Genesis -- and I am not extrapolating this out to all ID supporters or even all creationists -- seem to believe that because their account of creation answers everything, that is a necessary feature of any theory of human origins. It isn't.