Evolution, by its very definition, explicitly denies the existence of G-d.
No it doesn’t. Why can’t one maintain that evolution was guided by God? (NB: This has nothing to do with Torah sources. Joseph maintained that if Evolution is true, then God must not exist. That is not necessarily so, from a strictly logical POV.)
one of the obvious flaws of evolution is that it offers no explanation for how life began
That’s the field of abiogenesis, not evolution. Evolution deals with speciation, not the origin of life. The fact that evolution does not address the origin of life no more causes it’s invalidation than the fact that the Theory of Gravity doesn’t explain the origin of life.
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