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Evolution is a description of what we see happening in animals over time. That's all. This is about the formation of life.

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"Historically, ideas on the origins of life have been mingled with evolutionary explanations. Darwin avoided discussing the origin of the very first species in public although he acknowledged the possibility that life originated by natural causes. Some of his followers adopted this materialistic position and advocated some sort of spontaneous generation in the distant past. Nevertheless, Pasteur’s experiments were a major obstacle for scientific acceptance of the sudden emergence of life. The scientific study of the origin of life, established in the 1920s, required abandoning the idea of a unique chance event and considering a view of life emerging as the result of a long evolutionary process."

https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.100...

That's nice but there's still no reason to talk about things that reproduce and the origins of the building blocks of things that reproduce using the same word. Might as well say both the grocery store and the celery you bought are both stew. Or that shopping is cooking.

I think “how did non-living matter become alive” and “how do populations of organisms change over time” are two very different questions.

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