Did you goggle "primordial soup?"
It might have been taught in school in the same classes that also taught evolution. But the origins of life were never part of evolution. Not even during darwin's time. In fact, in his book The Origins of
Species, I think he even goes out of his way to explicitly say that his theory concerns the origins of bio-diversity - NOT origins of life itself.
But whatever you need to tell yourself, off course....
Evolution originally said lie began with a single cell. They originally called it simple cell, but when DNA was discovered, they had to walk that error back.
It's what science does.... it gathers more data, makes new discoveries and adjust theories where required to accomodate for that new data. It's called
learning and
making progress.
ps: evolution predicted a mechanism by which change is introduced in off spring and which is inherited by off spring. DNA provided
exactly that.
Common descent, a non-provable doctrine of evolution
It's funny, because common ancestry is one of the genetic
facts that evolution theory explains.
, requires a life fcorfm to be the beginning of life. So hey still teach itg.
Yes, for evolution to occur, life must exist.
This is why evolution theory starts with the "assumption" that life exists.
Not that much an assumption off course, since life demonstrably exists.
The only thing evolution has to say about "first life", is a prediction. That prediction being that first life was rather simple and thus not multi-cellular or something.
HOW that first life came to be, is out of scope.
Just to show you how much out of scope it really is....
Evolution theory would actually be fine with the idea that a god created those first simple living things. It doesn't matter to the theory at all...
Wheter first life formed through a bio-chemical reaction, was planted here by extra dimensional aliens or was miraculously created by a god. I doesn't matter.
As soon as it exists and reproduces with variation and competes for limited resources... evolution sets in.
