Why Do We Live On Earth?

Question

I'm So Confused

Answer 1

Holy S.hit

This is the best question I have ever seen on Yahoo Answers

I am confused too

Answer 2

I think it is because this planet is the right distance from the Sun to have liquid water. Life can't exist without water. Back in the day the Earth's atmosphere was mainly water, carbon dioxide and ammonia. With those basic ingredients and a few billion years of nature doing random experiments in the kitchen (a.k.a. evolution) it was able to produce all life, including humans. And until we move somewhere else, we live here on Earth.

Answer 3

We live on this earth because we r destined to so. My dear freind ur confusion is obvious, but think till now we have able to find only this small part universe with and process of life is so mysterious that it cannt be solved in a day or month or even a year.
So dont be confused urself & ur life as it is.

Answer 4

Thats a big question.

Spiritualy its quite a.. well efficent classroom to learn about the bad things thats for sure. Its also the ultimate fixer upper.


Biogeneticly.. since life exsists in all water frozen or liqid in space it would be sort of hard to say.. why eearth and not why not earth?

Its an everexspanding and growing in complexity type of place. you just have to make the disicion on what you want to concentrait on. the positive.. fostering and growing part? or the hostile destructive negative one.

Answer 5

There are several ways one can approach this question; you may wish to clarify your intent in asking.

Spiritual:
- Are we intended to pass a test?
- What role does Earth play in the cycle of rebirth or afterlife (depending on your personal beliefs). (I am an athiest and will address the spiritual questions I deem relevant under Philosophical, below.)

Scientific: This usually falls in with the theory of evolution (or creationism, which comes back to spirituality, above), and results in the questions:
- "Where did our species come from" (i.e. evolved from primates)
- "What is our role in the evolutionary chain" (e.g. to evolve to another, further advanced species)
- "What is our role on this planet/in the universe" (e.g. to diversify the ecosystem, develop technology, understand physical nature of universe, terraform other planets and allow life forms to develop there)

Philosophical: Tenuously linked with Spiritual questions, these questions tend towards the nature of life:
- What do we do?
- Where are we going?
- Why do we suffer?
- What is the point of life if we must die? (For those who do not believe in afterlife/reincarnation.)
- Is life a test? How do we pass? (Similar to spiritual question, but doesn't need to revolve around a higher power.)
- What role do we play in others' lives/what role to they play in ours?
- What would the last person on Earth do?
- Where did the cycle of life start? (i.e. chicken/egg scenario)
- IS there a reason for living here? (Existentialists && nihilists will generally say no to this one; I am inclined to agree.)

Then there is the meta-answer -- that is, perhaps we live on Earth to determine the reason for living here. My personal belief is that there is no reason; this leaves me free to live life as I choose and set my own goals.

Answer 6

We live on Earth either (1. because the conditions are good for life here or (2. because we are alien rejects.

Answer 7

Because it is hard to live on the sun, Jupiter, or Eros the asteroid, or a cloud of Hydrogen gas.

Answer 8

CONTINGENCY

In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of facts that are not logically necessary. See modal logic. Contingency is opposed to necessity: a contingent act is an act which could not have been, which is not necessary (a necessary act is an act which could not not have been).

Answer 9

For no reason other than that evolution created us. Our evolutionary reason for existence is simply to propagate the species. Beyond that, Carl Sagan had it right: "If you want your life to have significance, do something significant."

Answer 10

Cause we were born here and do not know how to get off.
Still confused?