[js1138]

Methinks you wish to keep the door open for abiogenesis, though as a Darwinist you aren't "required" to.

I'm sure most biologists expect abiogenesis to be solved. Personally, I think it's a tough problem, and I don't expect to live to see it solved. Science is not for the impatient.

But such problems are never solved by people who don't look.

Your assessment of Darwin's speculation is as trustworthy as your quotations.

[betty boop]

I'm sure most biologists expect abiogenesis to be solved.

Nobelist Francis Crick (of DNA fame) thinks not, because it requires things that are impossible.