this is for all of you narrow minded people!?

Question

recently on the discovery channel i watched a show that tried to explain how the earth formed and the moon and oxygen , water, and so on. if the earth was able to produce water and oxygen then why does no one think that it could happen on other planets?

i dont say that god is not real but i believe the big bang more than god created all

in genesis god make reference to other planets other than earth when it says god created the heavens and the earth, it is few few more verses down, a christian should read his/her own book

i understand eyeball what u say but just because we are aware of one does that mean there is only one? what is behind that star over there? u tell me!

rare, but not to rare to happen! it may be billions of years away or maybe it was billions of years ago who knows! thank you all that was great!

Answer 1

"no one"?....there is an organization called seti or search for extra-terrestial life in the universe...according tp seth shostak, the program lead astronomer, the expected hit in terms of finding life or establishing contact is between 2025 to 2035....i just hope i am still alive when that day arrives

Answer 2

It isn't narrow minded, it's plain scientific fact. Listen. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get hydrogen and oxygen together...? Hydrogen is found in young stars. Once they finish fusing all the hydrogen into helium, they can start building up the heavier elements. That takes more heat and pressure than making helium; the star has to run out of hydrogen first. It can't contract to build up the heat and pressure until the hydrogen runs out. Then it can start building up carbon and neon and silicon and oxygen.

But by the time a star gets around to building up oxygen, it's bazillions of years later, and there isn't any hydrogen left! It's very rare for an old star system that is making oxygen to get together with a young one that still has some hydrogen left! Nobody has yet been able to come up with a reasonable method of transporting the two elements to bring them together.

Some have suggested comets, but this is by no means a sure thing. The sequence of fusion prcesses in stars, mentioned above, resulting in contracting and greater heating when a star runs out of hydrogen, also results in an explosion called a nova, where the star sheds its outer layers and blasts them out to form a nebula.

But, the nebula is of much less mass than the remainder of the star, and does not escape its gravitational grip. The result is that the nebular material does not reach other star systems, and the radiation from the nova would likely vaporize all comets in that solar system.

If you can come up with a way to get oxygen and hydrogen together, you will be famous in scientific circles. Just because we have what seems, to us, to be lots of water on Earth does not mean that this is really a lot, or that water is common throughout the universe.

Answer 3

Your question has a flawed assumption...because many people do believe it could happen on other planets. There's certainly no shortage of water or water ice in our solar system (and presumably the universe). Most of the moons of the gas giants have a significant amount of water ice...far more H20 (by volume) than Earth has. Oxygen is also found in small quantities in the atmosphere of Jupiter...and Saturn's E-ring (the outermost) has a large component of oxygen that is derived from water spewing out of the moon Enceladus.

The building blocks are out there, that is undeniable...though the conditions to create an Earth-like environment are going to be a little more difficult to come by. But if it happened here, certainly it could happen elsewhere.

Answer 4

One can always make the argument that some sort of god is necessary to bring about what has become the universe as we perceive it. I can say, "the big bang caused it." You can come back, "but what caused the big bang?" Then I can respond with, "two parallel universes collided, invoking string theory." But then you reply, "but what caused the two parallel universes," and so on.

I personally reject the idea that some super intelligent, cognative creature set the wheels in motion to create the universe, galaxies, stars, planets, and moons...and life and the things that sustain life. Let's look at something (not someone) that could explain it...random creation.

If this and all universes have always been around, then they exist for all eternity. Over eternity, there would be N = infinity random attempts to create a big bang. Why can I say that? Because we know, from our own universe, that at least one was created. So, unless a divine intelligence created one big bang out of one attempt, an infinite number of tries must be randomly attempted over an eternity.

The probability of any one thing, like a big bang, happening at random over an infinite number of times (N = eternity) is p(1) = 1/N = 1/infinity = zero. Ah ha, our 4D tangible universe could not happen as a random event. BUT WAIT...there's more.

The expected number of ourcomes (like a big bang) is defined by E(1) = p(1)N; where N is the infinite number of attempts to make a big bang over eternity. So that E(1) = (1/N)N = 1; which simply says, over an eternity, we can expect one big bang. And, lo and behold, we have proof...we have the universe we now enjoy.

No god, just probability.

Answer 5

They can, we just happen to be lucky enough to live in an ideal solar system on the third planet from the sun and our planet has just the right tilt to give us mild (relatively) season changes. In other words, the planet Earth hit the biggest jackpot in the history of the universe. That being said, there are billions of galaxies with billions of stars in each so chances are good that there are other planets out there that are as lucky as Earth to be hospitable to life. In addition, remember that mass can be neither created nor destroyed so a planet can only "produce" water if it has sufficient amounts of hydrogen and oxygen to create H2O molecules.

Answer 6

The big bang is how God created the universe.
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1 universe and 1 Earth.

Answer 7

it is perfectly reasonable to suppose given the immensity of space and possible planets orbiting stars that there may be some others where the conditions can develop to sustain water and oxygen etc in the form in which we see on earth, but there are many variables to work here, distance from an appropriate star, geothermal activity, size and age of planet,coincidence of other planetary objects to name but a very few, it is because of these that we expect an earth like environment to be comparatively rare though by no means impossible

Answer 8

Well in hearing that long explanation on how things were formed it should occur to you that a lot of chance happenings have added up to life as we know it. (Timely extinctions, impacts, location, composition, age the list goes on forever just about). It's just unlikely that many other planets have been lucky enough to have all those things happen in the right way at the right time, the tiniest flaw in that series of events will give us vastly different life, no intelligent life, or no life at all. So it's not that it's not possible, it's just that it's not likely.

Answer 9

I agree more about the big bang theory than the Bible's account of creation. To me the bible is nothing more than a metaphoric account written by man, not God, concerning events that took place nearly 400 years after the last events of the bible. How accurate can the bible be?

Answer 10

The one rule that's constant in this universe is that what happened once can happen again. I don't expect other planets to be exactly like Earth, but they can sure get darned close.

Answer 11

Scientists really don't know what they are talking about 99% of the time when it comes to how the earth was formed. They talk about all of these waters and gasses and micro organisms with no real explanation as to how they all came about.