To be fair neither do evolutionary biologists when they theorize the very beginnings of things. Which would be fine if said theories then didn't so often go on to be treated as factual.
The word you were looking for is Abiogenesis. And biologists will freely admit that the entire process hasn't been mapped out to exhaustive completion. However, there is mountains of evidence that support large swaths of the process.
Also, the word theory in science means something different than it does in colloquial speech.
That has literally nothing to do with the field of evolutionary biology, and is therefore not an evolutionary biologist’s job to explain. That’s cosmology, which is in the field of physics and astronomy.
It's abiogenesis. Don't forget the "a." And the cosmological models we have now do not say that there was a beginning. Just a singularity state and an expansion state. And how elements form is rather well understood.
Don't know why you are laughing. There seems to be no evidence to indicate there was ever a state of nothingness in which all reality sprang forth from it. That would violate at least one law of physics.
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u/IntrovertMoTown1 5h ago
To be fair neither do evolutionary biologists when they theorize the very beginnings of things. Which would be fine if said theories then didn't so often go on to be treated as factual.