[boondoggle16]

I'm not understanding, your statement reads like a non-sequitur to me. Evolution has nothing to do with life.

[xg15]

Evolution has nothing to do with life? What? How would you define evolution then?

[boondoggle16]

Continual selection of entities which survive. For example, sand is the natural evolved substrate of beaches. Shells get ground into sand, anything heavier sinks to the bottom of the ocean.