“Evolution is compatible with what I and everybody else observes, living things replicating by natural means. I have yet to see a living thing created out of nothing.”
Then I must assume that you don’t believe in Genesis chapter 1 because thats what God did. Anyway, evolutionary biology doesn’t yet have a consensus on the chemical origin of the first cell and it most certainly doesn’t state that life came from nothing.
Maybe you better read Genesis again.
God did not create life out of nothing. At God’s command the Oceans and the Land brought forth life.
Thus scripture is perfectly compatible with the notion that (at God’s command) life originated from non living material; quite possibly by natural means.
Just as when Genesis says that God created the Sun, does that mean that gravity and nuclear fusion were not the means that God used? Those are the means that God uses to create stars that we observe forming. Did God not create those stars also?