What makes Creationism so special?

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7. According to cell theory the story of biology begins "once upon a time there was a cell"

mechanisms for heredity and metabolism were present in it and it was set on a path that proliferated Life in which its descendants underwent micro and macroevolutionary change understood by most people to be 'evolution'.

As things go, that's a convenient exegesical level to begin a biologists' introduction to the study of Life.

It's a starting place, not an impassible boundary in the quest for evolutionary understanding

The question of the self-organization/emergence of properties of life from non-living matter and the origin of functioning cellular units of life -is- an area of investigation. It has been for a long time. And the findings of people working that part of the problem are, indeed, part of the stuff included in evolutionary theory.