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So what? For one, it is likely that this didn't hold on prebiotic earth, as amino acids found on earth tend to be left handed in general. Furthermore, as has been mentioned already, life does not always take advantage of the most abundant compounds. We rely on aerobic metabolism, despite oxygen not being the most abundant element in the atmospgere or the sea. It just so happens that it was eventually selected "for" to perform aerobic metabplism in organisms.Introductory Biochemistry 101: the amino acids and sugars of raw nature are right- and left-handed respectively. Those of life are left- and right-handed respectfully.
Cells tend to use left handed amino acids (but not always). Your argument is not complicated. You say this means an intelligent, magical sky daddy made it so.
That is your entire argument. It is obviously absurd, and it is laughed off by scientists.