It certainly addresses the origins of man and life on this planet, though no one was there to observe the events. However you wish to bandy about the issue, the fact remains that time in public classrooms can be better spent teaching material that provides students with practical, scientific information. Freshman biology classes are filled with empty noggins that have spent countless hours listening to half-witted science teachers droll on about evolution while they know nothing about the complexities of cells, or basic chemistry, botany, zoology, ecology (apart from apocalyptic visions of rapid climate change), and we won’t mention mathematics. Taxpayers deserve better.
It certainly addresses the origins of man and life on this planet...
I thought so when I first started studying the subject but the TOE, common descent or however it is referred does not address the origin of life.