I don't think it does anything for religions, they are by definition faith based. As to your other question. We have known that amino acids exist out there for

I don't think it does anything for religions, they are by definition faith based. As to your other question. We have known that amino acids exist out there for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite And there's a reasonable theory that these compounds form naturally as the the stuff out there tumbles down the entropy stairs, so to speak. And here's where it gets interesting, if it's true that the building blocks of DNA are fairly common in the universe, then it's a reasonable assumption that DNA based life can emerge with some frequency.