Clowd, what religion are you by the way?
My view on how life began. I believe a couple things. Not sure which one I believe strongly about. It is entirely possible that bacteria did come in on an asteroid. They can survive some quite harsh conditions. They landed somewhere where there was plenty of food and life started that way.
I learned this theory at school. The conditions on the primitive earth were favorable to making the first organic molecules. Ok, now this has been proven in the lab (organic material has been made with the materials in the primitive earth). On the earth billions of years ago were things like water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfer, ect. When a spark of lighting hit the oceans, it set up a reaction and that\'s how life could have started. I threw out my notes so I don\'t remember what the theory was called exactly. One of those two I believe. The asteroid one does seem quite plausible.