[whattajoke]

True, abiogenesis is not part of the Theory of Evolution. It is, however, usually taught side-by-side with it."

You should have stopped after the first sentence. Abiogenesis is certainly not taught alongside evolutionary biology. The only place you'll typically find that is in creationist propaganda touting their viewpoint.

[f.Christian]

You hijack (( reroute )) and cut the conservative power line and then you don't want to pay the bill you are running up ?

[Dataman]

Abiogenesis is certainly not taught alongside evolutionary biology.

If you mean to say this incredible and elaborate theory was developed without any regard for its basis whatsoever, we're all snickering.

[FactQuest]

Abiogenesis is certainly not taught alongside evolutionary biology.

Puh-lease. I went round and round on this before in another forum, and found several high school biology text books that had abiogenesis in the Evolution unit.

Most biology classes, include the ones I took in HS and college, teach them one behind the other, as a cohesive whole. Some give a little lip service to the speculative nature of abiogenesis, but generally its presented as well supported by the old amino acid experiment and whatnot.