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[reasonisfaith]

Holds the building blocks of life.

Keep in mind, it’s the Builder who actually does the building.

[Verginius Rufus]

There was an interesting talk on C-SPAN not long ago featuring Marco Livio, co-author of the book Is Earth Exceptional? The Quest for Cosmic Life, on whether life exists anywhere else in the universe besides the earth. His conclusion was "we don't know."

He said the three basic questions in science are:

1. The origin of the universe
2. The origin of life
3. The origin of consciousness

[The Louiswu]

CHON, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen. There’s a LOT of that all over the universe but only God can provide the spark to turn those elements into life.

[Stosh]

“. . . protein building blocks themselves held another surprise — they contained an even mixture of left-handed and right-handed amino acids .. . .”

The bigger surprise would have been if the amino acids found on that asteroid were only of one form. Amino acids generated by natural physical forces always come (so far as we know) as a mixture of both mirror-image forms; only amino acids produced by living systems come in a single handedness..