I understand that. It implies it's all just an honest mistake. This particular mispercpetion has discussed and researched too much in that hundred years for misperceptions based on just that omission in his original works to be the sole basis.
The perception that TToE theorizes about the origin of life is being intentionally promogulated by people who cannot reasonably be assumed to know better.
Correction:
The perception that TToE theorizes about the origin of life is being intentionally promogulated by people who cannot reasonably be assumed to not know better.
Obama has not announced to the world "I am a Marxist" but we have a body of evidence: his associates and actions and writings.
And of course there will be some who say he is not a Marxist because he never said he was a Marxist. And they will be in opposition to the ones who say "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it is a duck - of course, he is Marxist."
Therefore, in my view, this dispute which stems from Darwin's omitting to mention that he took life as an axiom will not go away and neither side ought to think of the other as malicious or ignorant in its reasoning.
However, this kind of thing can be avoided in the future if scientists approach their investigations like the mathematicians and declare their axioms and postulates up-front.