But since every one of their hypothesis turned out to be bogus or impossible they decided to drop the “evolutionary origin of life” and pretend that they never taught it. Classic Liberalism. Deny the truth.
Exactly. What did they think Watson & Crick and Urey & Miller were trying to do? They started out with the protoplasm (”goo in a sack”) theory of the cell and tried to get from goo to something that processed biochemicals.
They wound up with more complications they could ever imagine.
Especially Watson and Crick. Imagine their surprise when they were looking for a ragtag bunch of molecules and found a veritable spiral Jacob’s Ladder! Hell, Francis Crick found the DNA double helix so awe-inspiringly non-random that he attributed its construction to aliens!