Doesn’t explain, though, how something dead initially came to life, or how sexual reproduction began.
Or what went BANG!
Nope, and even Darwin recognized that. If you had ever actually read his book, you might have noticed the title is “On The Origin of Species”, not “On The Origin of Life”.
He recognized that the origin of life was beyond not only the scope of his book, but beyond the human ken in the 1850’s.
It still is.