No, that isn't true. Life could have started out as something that accidentally happened and that did not require evolution, and then evolution itself could be the first mutation.

Evolution is actually the accumulation of errors that happen to have a beneficial effect. But that does not say anything about how it all began, that's just what we are seeing now. So there are two options: evolution was there from the beginning and is a requirement for the kind of life that came into being or it was an upgrade that came a little later.