[Behemoth the Cat]

"So your saying that if the Temple of Darwin were to ever find a naturalistic origin of life that it wouldn’t be considered part of evolution? PLEASE!"

Precisely. Evolution is one thing, origins quite another. Evolution involves natural selection. Any hypothetical naturalistic explanation of the origins of life would be likely based on an entirely different concept of probability.

[GodGunsGuts]

I beg to differ. Evos tend to be evos de haut en bas:

http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/cosmic_evolution/docs/splash.html

[metmom]

The folks are Berkeley disagree....

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/origsoflife_01