Evolving drugs allows a researcher to be stupid, while evolution slowly accumulates the smartness. Breeding drugs would be a medical boon. Yes, but it's a difficult job. Tom Ray's electric-powered evolution machine is heavy on the heritable information but light on bodies. Molecular evolution programs are heavy on bodies but skimpy on heritable information.
Naked information is hard to kill, and without death there is no evolution.
Flesh and blood greatly assist the cause of evolution because a body provides a handy way for information to die. Any system that can incorporate the two threads of heritable information and mortal bodies has the ingredients for an evolutionary system. Gerald Joyce, a biochemist at San Diego whose background is the chemistry of very early life, devised a simple way to incorporate the dual nature of information and bodies into one robust artificial evolutionary system. RNA is a very sophisticated molecular system. It was not the very first living system, but life on Earth at some stage almost certainly became RNA life.