Hello Bill,
IIRC we are discussing your agreement with Cornelius’s claim, “There is a vast amount of evidence against common descent,” and your claim, “I think the evidence is pointing to multiple origins of life as an alternative hypothesis to universal common descent, or multiple origins of life in combination with common descent.”
May we please focus on evidence, not models nor arguments, since you have explicitly specified evidence?
My question is purely evidentiary: “And are you aware of the time required to evolve (using variation random with respect to fitness and selection) a highly-specific novel binding site with nanomolar affinity?”
The answer is a number and unit of time. Are you aware of it?