It is offered as a scientific theory, somewhat debatable. The mathmatical improbability of it explaning the development of all species, including intelligent life,renders the theory colloqiual. Such a leap requires an agenda, a belief system, a faith, a religion of sorts. It simply is not scientific.
I’d say discuss (i.e., “teach”) it all - especially the doubt from whence good science arises - and let it take wing, or fall by gravity.
The reason I had asked is because the gentleman in question had previously stated that evolution did not quite come up to the level of a [scientific] theory, and I just wanted clarification.