[Nebullis]

...and the discussion is not that life did or didn't begin but what "evidence" there is for the view that it began from a soup or stew(take your pleasure). Space aliens could have transplanted the whole ecosystem in.

Sure. Panspermia. Another theory.

We have evidence that life started very small: the first fossil evidence of life 3.5 billion years ago is unicellular. Is that what you are looking for?

[AndrewC]

Is that what you are looking for?

Yes, that is evidence. It is evidence of life of a certain type. It is not evidence of a pre-biotic soup.