“Either evolution is the mechanism by which life came into being, or it isn’t.”
Isn’t.
The mechanism is that funny yellow star we call the Sun.
It is the origin of life on Earth.
Without it, there would be absolutely none. And that’s a fact, jack.
That God might choose to start small, and build life on the planet through a series of evolutionary changes, seems like a very reasonable theory.
God CREATED. EVOLUTION is everything that happened afterward.
Evolution is just the misinterpretation of the observed variation within species.