A gentle rebuttal or two about some misconceptions:
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Why "last"? Except in the unlikely eventuality that it be found.
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It isn't unlikely. This is science fiction, after all. The likelihood of finding at least one species that hasn't forsaken the value of their spirituality is pretty high. That is what we're talking about, after all. Isn't it?....and by "we" I mean "me", of course.
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Hmm, more likely carried around by comet; the surface of the Earth for the first billion or so orbits after formation was not conducive to the survival of those amino acids and such that you dub 'building blocks', much less so for a cellular structure, which is what you are suggesting with your "virtually indistinguishable". But it's just as likely to be spores driven into space by volcanic eruptions on the first planet to develop a reproducing organism.Hmm, in the same mould?
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I realize my idea of these molecules being in the nebula to start off with is different from current theory. It's my idea and I like it. I'm not trying to do too much hard science here. I like to sprinkle an occasional imagining in the story now and again on the assumption that if the reader goes into fits because I ask them to imagine things while reading fiction then....well, I won't state the obvious.