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Why doesn't evolution work as a mode of origin for the species

See my post #359.

(mind you, no intelligent scientist claims that it is a mode of origin for life itself, since evolution does not deal with life origins).

First... evolution as it is usually taught, most assuredly DOES deal with life origins. The first cell supposedly originated randomly, and all the new orders of life supposedly originated as a result of accumulated mutations from that. If evolutionists would confine their claims to the verifiable facts of adaptive radiation and other microevolutionary events, I wouldn't have a problem with that. But they don't.

Also... I'm a scientist (Ph.D. Chemist). And I was a convinced evolutionist for a long time. Even after I got religion, I just passed off creation as an allegory and inwardly cringed when I heard fellow Christians using Genesis to make creationist arguments.

Yet when creationists with some real scientific knowledge showed me the problems with evolution, and I really looked at it, my jaw hit the floor! How could I be so blind? How did I fail to see it? I felt VERY STUPID for having fallen for evolution, let me tell you. The fatal flaws in evolution were so blatant, I just about kicked myself for not having seen through it on my own.

First... evolution as it is usually taught, most assuredly DOES deal with life origins. The first cell supposedly originated randomly, and all the new orders of life supposedly originated as a result of accumulated mutations from that.

The ultimate origins of life are not relevant to the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution does not postulate that the first life forms originated 'randomly'. The matter of the origin of the first life form(s) is irrelevant to evolution. Evolution only deals with existing life forms, it does not deal with how life in general came into being. Whether life originated through some random chemical reaction, was seeded by aliens or was zap-poofed into existence by some divine entity is completely and totally irrelevant to the theory of evolution.

That you have confused this very basic premise shows that you likely don't have the scientific backing to understand evolution enough to discredit it. Your Ph.D in Chemistry does not make you an expert in matters of Biology.