No, it didn't start with rocks. It started with organic compounds or other life. You see, you don't understand the theory of evolution.
Evolution is a theory attempting to describe how live diversified on Earth. It is NOT a theory relating to the rise of life in the first place.
This is why ID is irrelevant to evolution, and why ID supporters are readily (and correctly) dismissed from discussions about evolution.
ID concerns how life began, not how it diversified.
Evolution concerns how life diversified, not now it began.
The two are mutually exclusive. ID'ers demanding they have a seat at the table makes as much sense as having a restaurant manager demand a seat at a panel discussing neurotoxology.
Evolution theory is just that. No "science" involved.
ID however, embraces science and always has contrary to vicious rumor. The study of "life" will eventually lead to understanding it's creator. There is no fear of that, unless you were an evolutionist of course.
Asd we continue to unravel and understand our DNA, we see the intelligence involved in it's design.
You can go keep looking for fossils that don't exist, we'll stick to the labs and work on the science.
The intelligent (extremely beyond comprehension) designer designed kinds and "micro-evolution" or ability for adaptation and variations among the kinds. It is all in the the original design and has every thing to do with variations among kinds. That explains your question about evolution. Life diversifies because the ability through genetic information was at the beginning implanted in the genes of the original life The Creator created. It may be hard to accept and understand unless you can begin to conceive of how extremely and perfectly intelligent The Creator is. He knows the end from the beginning and everything in between.