The technical answer is complex, but broadly speaking, the chordates are the fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. They have heads and tails, have symmetric right and left sides, endoskeletons, and brains, spinal cords (neural tubes) and (most have) bony vertebral columns.
The biological evolution of populations over generations requires a living population to act on.
I don't use faith to decide what is true about the world. Empiricism or the application of reason to evidence, is more reliable. Beliefs like "my car will probably start tomorrow" allow for some uncertainty, are derived from prior experience, and should not be called faith in the sense of religious-type faith. They are justified beliefs and are demonstrably correct. The car probably will start, but sometimes, it won't. That's a fact not believed by faith.
We have life in the universe. It either arose naturalistically or supernaturalistically. We have nature, but zero evidence that ant more than that exists.
Correct. But you didn't explain how you know that God did it and not Norm, or why you think one statement is more accurate than the other or has more explanatory or predictive power.
Correct. Scripture is fossilized and cannot evolve unless people want to translate it differently or change the meaning of its words. But science adapts. It grows as we learn.
And yes, it can be frustrating. I watched a very good show on the history of the first three of four eons in earth history. Apparently, comets and asteroids are out as the source of the earth's oceans with outgassing of native water into the atmosphere resulting in the oceans, and Late Heavy Bombardment has come under scrutiny and may not have been a thing. These are the results of various probes reaching and testing the water in these heavenly bodies and discovering that their water doesn't resemble earth's water in terms of the amount of deuterium in it (heavy water).
That's the glory of science and its evolving narratives. At any time, they represent the likeliest explanation for the available evidence, but as the evidence accrues, from time to time, the narrative must be modified t reflect those new findings. That's the tentative nature of science and of the skeptical temperament. No narrative (scientific explanation) is considered the final word.
The purpose of the Genesis creation myth was to explain how the world came to be (six days of creation including the first two human beings) and how it works (miracles, prayer). Its authors had no understanding of biochemistry and didn't know what brains do. They had a concept of minds and knowledge but hadn't connected that with brains.
I did a search on the topic of the brain in the Bible, and the hits were all about mind with none mentioning brains. The people who compiled this list knew that minds and brains were related, which is why they chose scriptures about minds, but the Bible writers were unaware of that. Aristotle thought that the brain was to cool the blood:
What Does the Bible Say About Your Brain?
The theory of evolution doesn't depend on abiogenesis, just that there be living populations experiencing genetic variation over generations and subjected to environmental pressures (natural selection).
The article was about lay people misunderstanding scientific terminology. That's not a problem for scientists.
Don't confuse the growth and development of an individual from zygote to adult with the evolution of populations over generations. They can both be called biological evolution, but they are very different things, and the term almost always refers to Darwinian evolution. WhenI refer to biological evolution next, it will mean only the latter.
These represent different processes from the growth and development of an individual organism, which occurs in a lifetime.
Yes. Living cells turn nonliving ingredients into new living cells.
No, just as the theory of evolution predicts. That would be the irreducible complexity the ID people were looking for as evidence of an intelligent designer and would falsify the theory or at least mean that naturalistic biological evolution a la Darwin wasn't the only factor causing life to change over generations.
Evolution is an observable fact. It's why your parents are genetically distinct from both you and their parents. And It's all observable, although the largest changes occurred long before we were here to observe them.
nonlife -> unicellular life -> multicellular life including chordates such as dogs and man.
This leaves out a lot. For multicellular life to form, which includes not just animals but also plants and fungi, the original bacterial cells had to evolve into different kinds of cell, which occurred over more than a billion years.
