As I understand it evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life. It deals with what happened after that.
Evolution is a non-starter unless and until it can explain how life began but all evolutionists believe that in principle evolution explains the origins of life. It is the only naturalistic theory available to them and they dogmatically insist its up to the task, but in reality all they have is hand-waving and speculation against extremely improbable odds.
No, evolution says: We KNOW the Earth was once inhabited by sea creatures, and then it was inhabited by land animals, and then it was inhabited by giant reptiles, and then it was inhabited by giant birds, and then it was inhabited by small birds and large mammal. And this is the best explanation available at this time for how those transitions occurred, subject to further refinement.
That is not what evolution says at all: it says we have a fully naturalistic mechanism that explains the origin and diversity of life on this planet. The problem is the mechanism is demonstrably incapable of explaining either. It is a failed theory.
