I don't know about evo guys, but cyanide is part of the soup you need to get proteins and amino acids going - at least in an Earth lab. It's like the people that cook meth use 6 or 7 chemicals in all kinds of strange forms and mix the stuff together and cook it and then reduce it and wash it and get meth. It's more complex than most people do even in college chemistry. Yes the evo people will jump all over it. Is proof only that the stuff is out there. Quantity and other catalyst items and proper sequencing would be needed to get something going.
Plus a miracle or two.