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Really Linear, you are wrong. Alchemy is a precursor to chemistry just like evolution is (sort of) a precursor to modern genetics. But alchemy is based on facts in that regard, proven things, chemical reactions, not just theories.
Fer sure, it was. However, the processes involved in chemistry are more refined. I guess we have to thank those gold seekers for making the mistakes that got us where we are today.


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Turning Lead into Gold
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/generalchemistry/a/aa050601a.htm
I guess your knowledge of science isn't everything I had hoped for. Maybe that is why you keep trying to figure out which branch of science is searching for God. There isn't one. That is called theology. It's kind of like... you want to use evolution or science to create an argument that says God didn't create the world but you never mention the fact that science has never searched for God. So, I don't really understand what you are basing your 'scientific' assumptions on.
Amazingly, lead has been turned to gold but, as the reference you provide says, it was done with nuclear physics, which is not chemistry. Unless those old alchemists made their own nuclear reactors or accelerators, it's not alchemy either.

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But anyway, alchemy is to chemistry what evolution, shall we say tries to be, to biology, no question about it, Linear. Early chemists proved all sorts of things with alchemy. If evolution could do the same it might have as much respect in other scientific fields. But since evolution has never yet begun a search for god, only for fossils and stuff, where exactly do you expect your argument to go? You really don't seem to have any information to either accept, or reject, any evidence of God.
I already said that science doesn't search for God.
Look, the Bible supposedly says what God did, so why can't we search for evidence of the things it says He did. Like, maybe, evidence of a world wide flood. Maybe some evidence that all the animal species of the earth lived at the same time. Things like that should leave evidence behind, unless God is hiding His tracks. But, why would He do that?

BTW, this isn't another "bash evolution with bare assertions" thread. I have not insulted your pet theories.

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke