I've got a fairly decent memory and did fairly well in school. My memory says they were taught as one and the same at that time, that they always were connected. You didn't see one without the other.
I wish I could find the texts. My old zoology teacher sang at my wedding (great baritone), but he has since passed away.
"I've got a fairly decent memory and did fairly well in school. My memory says they were taught as one and the same at that time, that they always were connected. You didn't see one without the other.
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Actually, I have an old biology text from the 60s. It's the one used in my high school at that time. It does include the "primordial soup" business in a few paragraphs.
Noteworthy is the fact that it says that life MAY first have appeared in this primordial soup. It does not say that it DID appear. It states the hypothesis, but does not claim it to be a fact.
Seems OK to me. Perhaps your memory doesn't include that.