Darwin's book was on the origin of species, not the origin of life.
I have NOTHING against teaching evolution. I think evolution can be proven by simply looking at my children who EVOLVED from the combining of mine and my wife’s genes!
The problem is that the books and the teachers do not leave the “origin of life” out of my child’s science class. In some states a disclaimer was added to the cover of science books that stated and I am paraphrasing: evolution is one of many theories about the origin of life and that other theories included the big bang and ID. These books were challenged as religious paraphernalia. The way left leaning people on this subject are not willing to concede that it is only a theory!
If the teacher and the books simply stated that the origin of life is not known and therefore will not be broached then I would be fine with the subject of evolution (, i.e., survival of the fittest, etc...).
The problem is that most science teachers and books (at least the ones that I had/used) teach this subject as the “origin of life” and fail to mention any other possible theories! That is censorship!