Just went and checked the site for myself, and you are quite correct...the Berkeley branch of the Temple of Darwin is using our tax dollars to declare the following:
“...life almost certainly originated in a series of small steps, each building upon the complexity that evolved previously:”
Then the following major subheadings are listed:
1. Simple organic molecules were formed.
2. Replicating molecules evolved and began to undergo natural selection.
3. Replicating molecules became enclosed within a cell membrane.
4. Some cells began to evolve modern metabolic processes and out-competed those with older forms of metabolism.
5. Multicellularity evolved.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/origsoflife_04
Self-replication opened the door for natural selection. Once a self-replicating molecule formed, some variants of these early replicators would have done a better job of copying themselves than others, producing more "offspring." These super-replicators would have become more common — that is, until one of them was accidentally built in a way that allowed it to be a super-super-replicator — and then, that variant would take over. Through this process of continuous natural selection, small changes in replicating molecules eventually accumulated until a stable, efficient replicating system evolved.
I just LOVE how the details are explained!
Now I know how Obama plans to CHANGE Washington!