This leads to two questions:
(1) How did the early pre-biotic organic molecules
form without falling apart in water? [Were they
even in water?]
(2) How come present day living creatures don't
fall apart in water? [Except the Wicked Witch
of the West.] Clearly it can't be because living
things are made of only CH bonds -- otherwise
we'd just be walking, talking piles of oil.
Biomolecules can't be too ionic (fall apart in
water), but also can't be too covalent (or else
they'd never mix with water).
Carbon molecules seem to be a good (the best?
who knows?) solution.