Does evolution explain abiognesis?

Question

Does evolution explain abiognesis?

Answer 1

No, evolution is about organisms with a minimal, steady organization (basically: a genome and a cytoplasm).

Primordial organisms probably followed the laws of chemistry rather than those of biology...

Answer 2

No.  Evolution is about how life changes, not how life began.   The driving mechanisms of evolution are natural selection and genetic drift ... and both of these require three ingredients: replication with inheritance, variation, and competition for resources.   Abiogenesis is about the origins of the first organic structures (which may have been pre-cellular molecules) that could support replication with inheritance, and variation.

There are many perfectly valid hypotheses for the origins of life (abiogenesis), but none have emerged as the front-runner.

Answer 3

No.  It doesn't even address it.  Not directly anyway.

But it's important to think about abiogenesis in an evolutionary context because evolution will kick in the moment after abiogenesis.

Right now, God seeding life (though not a scientific hypothesis) is as good as any abiogenesis hypothesis.

Answer 4

No.  Evolutionary theory says nothing whatsoever about how, or if, life started.  Rather, it seeks to account for the diversity of life on Earth, and starts from the sensible assumption that life exists.

Answer 5

no, it explains how humans came to be, not the world and the universe. because it doesn't explain where that one destructive molecule came from.