Read all the comments in this thread and watch the video someone posted, it will give you a good overview of how the Abiotic mechanism works. As to being the building blocks of life....hmmm, well maybe. I am more inclined to believe that "intelligent design" had a larger role in creating the complexity of life on Earth than it being a natural process.

Here is a reading suggestion: "Darwin's Black Box" by Michael Behe wherein he discusses the gaping holes in the Darwinian model of evolution. Or a simpler explanation comes from English astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, who said, "The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way [via random natural process] is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein."