The pattern of natural selection can appear in many contexts. Especially if you look very hard for it.
If I jump toward the sky, you could say I look a bit like a rocket ship. I mean both go up right? But then common sense about how high the moon is and how high a person can jump, and all the other practical problems of reality....I can see my ability to jump upward is not enough to get me to the moon.
One could read natural selection into a lot of processes...including where it doesn't make any sense to do so. One just has to look hard enough for a way to make the connection.
Where it fits best is not in the evolution of species though. The evolutionary process is much more rapid under human guidance. For example the evolution of technology. And even the breeding of animals and plants by people for a purpose.
As we move to processes that do not have the advantage of intelligent guidance, and even more do not have the advantage of living reproduction, we have the analogy to natural selection gets strained...its not really there. Its simpler to just think of chemical processes as processes instead of looking for aspects of them we can read natural selection into.
So, yes. That looks like evolution.