"If you really want to show evolution, start with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hyrogen, trace elements, and make a self-replicating complex molecule from it, in what are assumed to be the conditions of "old earth"."

>>You're inappropriately conflating biogenesis with evolution .Evolution makes absolutely no statements or prediction re: self replicating models arising frome elemental precursors, I'm afraid--it only addresses genetic changes in already existing populations of already living organisms.