"No, I do not remember wrong. I was taught that in my science class that we evolved from gases. "
Nonsense. What gases were they?
They were the gases that existed before any life was created. There was some scientist at Berkley that tried to prove that the gases could have formed the basis for human life. I don't remember the specifics, but that was what science was claiming at the time. It may be nonsense now (I thought it was then), but that is what was being taught in public schools.