[CarolinaGuitarman]

"In the late 60s, Darwinian evolution based textbook for 9th Grade biology, said life arose from a 'primordial soup' and that the environmental conditions, like lightening etc, combined with whatever in the oceans formed the ingrediantd for the origin of life. Even remember seeing a film strip on the subject."

Was the textbook only about evolution or did it cover all sorts of theories in biology? Like maybe...ABIOGENESIS??? Isn't it possible that the book dealt with theories that weren't evolution? The biology textbook I had in High School had a little chapter at the end that dealt with theories about origins; origins of life (abiogenesis) and origins of species (evolution). They were considered separately, as was proper.

[connectthedots]

Those who accept the notion of universal common descent claim that all life forms have descended for single cell organisms. Those single cell organisms had to have had some origin. That origin, at least as hypothesized back then was what people would call abiogenesis today.