Why people find it so shocking that life evolved from the rock?
Rocks or minerals are what we are made of. Humans are carbon base life form. If you chemically analyze any part of human or animal, dead or alive, that is what you find - minerals. Primary elements combined to make everything else in our bodies.
Chemical elements and compounds.
Even the Christians do not disagree with that. Just about every funeral you will hear that dust we are and in dust we shall return.
Nowadays we have pretty good understanding how elements came about - from nuclear furnaces we see at night in the sky - the stars.
To speak about rocks (minerals) in derogatory terms is a sign of ignorance
