Should evolution be taught in schools?
To me Darwinian evolution (including chemical evolution) is today’s alchemy. The alchemists knew they could achieve some chemical transformations, and so they saw no reason to set limits. If you told an alchemist he could not change lead into gold, no doubt he would brush your objections aside as unhelpful, and ask why you weren’t proposing an alternative method of transformation. Alchemists were trying to solve a problem that wasn’t solvable with the knowledge available at the time. The right way to proceed was to abandon their fruitless research program and learn more about the difference between elements and compounds.
