If all cells die, what is the origin of evolution?

Reproduction, herp a derpity derptastic sandwich.

You probably didn't get an answer in the biology section because other sections tend to ignore troll questions, not because there is no explanation.

Evolution happens to populations, not individuals.

Why would a cell need to live forever for there to be an initial cell? That's a complete non-sequiter. You essentially just said that life can't exist because no life form exists forever.

The available evidence indicates that under certain conditions, organic molecules spontaneously form. Once simple molecules form, they join and form more complex molecules. It's been done in the lab, and the longer you let the experiment run, the more complex the structures get. Given a half billion years and all the oceans in the world it probably wouldn't have taken long for the first biological structures that fit the definition of life to form. Once you have replication you can get replication errors and mutations, which are one of the bases of evolution. Once you have a population of protocells, you can have natural selection which is the other base of evolution.

Your question tells me that either you don't know the first thing about evolution and you've got some bizarre misconceptions about what it is, or you're trolling trying to make creationists look stupid. I'm not sure which it is, but apparently the biology section thinks you're a troll.

"If no cell lives forever then how could there be an initial cell?"

In what way does the lack of cellular immortality disqualify an "original cell"? You don't like any of the other answers here, mostly because your question can't be answered, because it's not a valid question. Not only is the initial assumption wrong, but, even if it wasn't, you'd still only be restating the "chicken and the egg" conundrum. It assumes a "single first cell" happened at some point.

You're not going to like any answer other than "God pointed his finger and made it happen" so why are you wasting our time?

Reproduction, variation, and natural selection (which requires death).

If you're talking about single-celled organisms, they didn't all die. In fact, you can trace every current single-celled organism to that initial spark of life you called the "first cell". If mitosis for you isn't death, that mean the initial cell is still alive and all around us :)

Of course it changed a lot since then because of variation, and most if it is dead because of natural selection, but some part of it is alive in the form of every single-celled organism around you.

Boson Higgs theory tells us that even matter replicates and dies. Panspermia theory tells that microscopic life is everywhere in the universe, just waiting to be transported via a comet, to an opportune planet.

Evolution is that microscopic life having an environment that allows it to grow and gradually develop in various ways. Evolution happens gradually over millions of years, so its not something you'll see in a lifetime.

What a non sequitur! Evolution operates at the population level, not the cellular level. The death of cells has nothing to do with it.

BTW, if you think that all cells die, google "HeLa".

Earlier cells.

The fact that life reproduces, but without creating perfect copies.

That's like asking if my shoes cost 50 quid, why was it raining two days ago?

Evolution is fact, why not get a bio textbook?