First, Sewell's critique does not deal only with the origin of life. That said...
Of course in the narrowest sense ToE, by virtue of the mechanism of natural selection, presupposes life, and only operates on life, but evolution in the more generally accepted, though arguably more slack, understanding of the term, certainly assumes a gradualist and Naturalist theory of abiogenesis.
Abiogenesis is origin of life. Just because some asshole says a slack understanding of the term evolution assumes naturalistic abiogenesis does not mean that thermodynamics is troublesome for evolution once life exists.
No one claims to know how life started. There is speculation and there is research, but no detailed hypothesis.
At this point it appears you're not even trying to understand what I'm saying. Thanks for the memories.