NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet

xp65 writes "NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. 'Glycine is an amino acid used by living organisms to make proteins, and this is the first time an amino acid has been found in a comet,' said Jamie Elsila of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. 'Our discovery supports the theory that some of life's ingredients formed in space and were delivered to Earth long ago by meteorite and comet impacts.'"

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Where did that stuff come from?

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I'm not going to say that God created the world in 6 days or any crap like that. Anyone who thinks that Creationism has any validity at all is seriously deluded and should probably be kept away from sharp objects and steep dropoffs.

But they do have a point when it comes to abiogenesis. It's fine and dandy to push the building blocks of life off-planet, but how can those blocks then be explained? A large planet with all sorts of chemical and physical processes seems like a much better place for life to arise than on some desolate block of ice flying around the universe. What caused the life to form way out there?