Just as Big Bang Theory deals with everything EXCEPT the Big Bang (it deals with the evolving state of the universe during all the times AFTER the Big Bang), so the modern theory of biological evolution (which has evolved a lot since Darwin, though still retains his basic ideas) deals with all the times AFTER the beginning of life and says nothing about how life began.
I’m posting this to you just to emphasize what you’ve already said. I know you know all this.
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False - it just deals with it thus:
“This step still remains unverified to science as of this writing.”