“The odds of life just happening by chance are zero.”
Whether or not that’s true; it has nothing to do with evolution.
Darwin’s theory concerned the ‘origin of the species’ — i.e. diversification of lifeforms; not the origin of life itself. “Abiogenesis” is one theory on the origin of life itself. Evolution is a theory of how new species form — assuming that a life form already exists.
Sorry but wrong unless you believe in animism or an élan vitale.
Your comment on this and abiogenesis is very common, but the irony is that it is creationism in a different guise.
Chemicals are chemicals, no difference between dead and alive except defining characteristics, the main one being the ability to replicate.
“Whether or not that’s true; it has nothing to do with evolution.”
George disagrees with you.
“The origin of life was necessarily the beginning of organic evolution and it is among the greatest of all evolutionary problems.”
~ George G. Simpson
Shush!
How DARE you attempt to nail down the definition of terms being used!
Correct, Darwin's basic evolution theory only attempted to explain speciation as a result of 1) descent with modifications and 2) natural selection.
Neither require high order mathematics or probability theory to grasp, since both can be observed in nature and science labs.
The word "abiogenesis" only references one of several hypotheses for how life may have originated on Earth.