I just don't buy the microbe in the meteorite announcements a few years back...I'd love it if it were true, and we were descended from life that evolved on MARS or somewhere else...I just find the chain of events that led to that meteor starting life on earth to be hard to believe.:-(
I'm basically a Buddhist, but I love the Universe and see elegance and miracles all the time...There is NO Greater miracle than the behavior of WATER...Its the universal solvent plus Every other liquid contracts when it turns from a liquid to a solid...Heck every Solid contracts as it Cools down!!! WATER EXPANDS at its Freezing point...And because it DOES expand...All these improbable Pro-Life benefits to complex life forms arise...The one I like best is that...As water in a lake changes from liquid to solid in Winter, each Crystal floats to the top because its displacement of liquid water outweighs its own mass in solid form(ICE)! It becomes a little BOAT!!! it floats to the surface and if enough little Ice Crystals form....They form an insulating SKIN on the LAKE and prevent the water underneath from Freezing!!! The fish are protected by their watery atmosphere from freezing solid all the way down to the lake bottom and dying!!!
Have fun on your own thinking about ole H2O...Somebody really put the FIX on for little wiggly things to someday look in the mirror and go...how the heck did THIS happen? :-) I want to go to MARS in person and have a little bucket and a toy shovel and dig till I find something that yells at me...Hey! Put that Sand Back!!! We're sleepin down here, AHOLE MONKEYBOY!!! Yep...Going to Mars!!!