No, not evidence that “abiogenesis evolved”. I don’t even know what that means. Abiogenesis is “the origin of life from non-life”.
What I said there was evidence of is that abiogenesis was a natural process. As in evidence it was a process governed by the known laws of physics and chemistry.
There is in fact evidence (not unassailable proof, but evidence nonetheless) that the origin of life was a process governed by the laws of physics and chemistry, as opposed to some sort of intelligent design. The inferred amino acid frequencies in the ancestors of the oldest known proteins correlate increasingly with the distribution of amino acids produced in abiotic chemical reactions, and predicted to result from them by thermodynamics, as we go further and further back in time when infering ancestral sequences. The closer we get to life’s origin, the more the protein sequences contain the kinds of amino acids that would have been produced non-biologically in abiotic chemistry, and therefore contain fewer and fewer instances of the “modern” amino acids such as Tryptophane.
This is what one would expect if life originated by a blind, unguided physical and chemical process whereby the first proteins were synthesized by polymerization of the sorts of amino acids that existed in the prebiotic environment, instead of being somehow intelligently designed and manufactured by an intelligent chemist that had access to a greater repertoire of amino acids than mere geochemistry can produce and could cause particular chemical reactions to occur at will.
See for example:
Higgs PG, Pudritz RE. A thermodynamic basis for prebiotic amino acid synthesis and the nature of the first genetic code. Astrobiology. 2009 Jun;9(5):483-90. [DOI: 10.1089/ast.2008.0280]
Trifonov EN. Consensus temporal order of amino acids and evolution of the triplet code. Gene. 2000 Dec 30;261(1):139-51. [PMID: 11164045 ]
Brooks DJ, Fresco JR, Lesk AM, Singh M. Evolution of amino acid frequencies in proteins over deep time: inferred order of introduction of amino acids into the genetic code. Mol Biol Evol. 2002 Oct;19(10):1645-55. [PMID: 12270892]
This is evidence for a physics/chemistry-based origin of life, and evidence against rational intelligent design, because an intelligent designer could simply have designed a modern bacterium with the complete biochemical pathways for making all 20 extant amino acids, ensuring it’s capacity to adapt to future environmental challenges.
You have not conversed with Dr. Tour lately.
I don’t care about James Tour, his words don’t dictate reality.