It seems to me that if prions, which are not living, are able to evolve, Dawkins' hypothesis that extraterrestrial life would also be Darwinian stands to reason.
Processes that we assume to be exclusive to our domain (human, sentient, and even living) frequently reveal themselves to be intrinsic to nature, like a physical law. Seeing life as matter that is subject to deterministic principles seems inevitable, since we can no longer support the notion that we (defined as broadly as possible) are capable of anything that other natural systems can't do.
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