Where does Rennie say anything remotely like that?
Get a lawyer, gentlemen, you have a really good case against whatever teacher gave you a passing grade in reading comprehension.
The entire first paragraph of the Rennie excerpt I provided describes how non-living materials could have laid "the foundation for cellular biochemistry." He does this in response to the "nonsense" that evolution can't explain origins, then he goes on to explain how the basic building blocks of the cell could have arisen from non-living matter.
The guy is trying to have it both ways.