As you might see, I enjoy the outer space. The mystery behind it, and the fact that we're such a small part of it, I think it's really neat to think about.
Anyway, for those who are religious, why do you think God/Allah/etc. chose this planet/or made this planet perfect for living conditions instead of one of the other 8?
If you are not religious and just want to weigh in, be my guest
Thanks for your answers :)
2006-09-07 05:11:03 · 9 answers · asked by Southpaw 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ahh geez I did it again..
ok let's pretend I asked this 4 weeks ago..
2006-09-07 05:15:52 · update #1
I have no idea.
Of the trillions of rocks this size that could have been chosen I don't know.
But if you get into the chance of this happening again you will find that you have a better chance of being bit by a shark, and at the same instant struck by lightning, while in a deep mine, in the desert!
2006-09-07 07:05:40 · answer #1 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think God put the rest of the universe there as a sign of how amazing he is and to show us that he is massive and powerful and exists.
the other plants... maybe God wanted to demonstrate how loving he is that he made our planet just right and that none of the other planets can support life. i bet that if we were to visit other planets we would find that they can't support life either though i could be wrong. maybe there is a reason no one knows yet. everything was made for a reason.
as for why this planet only God knows though if he wanted he could have made it so we existed on any one of the others!
2006-09-07 12:54:23 · answer #2 · answered by attb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean the other seven. Don't worry, I tend to forget too. Forty years ago I was taught that our solar system has nine planets.
Venus would have been too hot; Mars would have been too cold. The Earth is situated just right. With all of our scientific curiosity, we will someday know why the other planets are there; I'm sure they are necessary for something.
2006-09-07 12:21:23 · answer #3 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion...there is no god. We're here by chance. And yes, I think there's other life out there somewhere, but not in our solar system.
Was your point that god could have made creatures that were suitable to any of the planets? He, being all powerful and all, could have made humans that were able to breathe nitrogen, or that didn't need water to survive...so why didn't he?
2006-09-07 12:26:59 · answer #4 · answered by ♥Mira♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who is to say that other planets don't contain life in a differnt form. We tend to define life by our lives. Who's to day there aren't life forms breathing Neon and made up of Mercury on any of the other eight? And besides, what difference does it make?
2006-09-07 12:14:53 · answer #5 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no 'God/Allah/etc.'.
There are only a few thousand stars visible from the earth, with the unaided eye. The universe contains lots more, though. The earth was formed, over hundreds of millions of years, out of an accretion disk that surrounded our infant sun. This is a process that is going on even today, and can be seen in direct observations by astronomers. It's a 'cause-and-effect' thing. (Google for 'stellar nursery', and 'protostar'.) If you you were to get your nose out of the bible, and get yourself up to speed on what's going on in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, you would know this.
We live on a small dirt ball in the outskirts of an average spiral galaxy, containing somewhere between 100 BILLION and 400 BILLION stars. There is absolutely nothing special about our particular dirtball... unless you want to count 'life' as being special.
Consensus is that galaxies average around 200 BILLION stars. It is estimated that there are around 100 BILLION galaxies in the OBSERVABLE universe. If you do the math, that works out to around 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars.
Here's a simple experiment that you can do in your own living room, which will give you an appreciation for how big that number is. One of those one-pound cylindrical boxes of Morton salt contains about 5,000,000 (5 million) grains of salt. Go to the store and buy 40,000 boxes of Morton Salt and dump them out, into a pile in your living room. OK... in that pile there will be roughly one grain of salt for each star in our (Milky Way) galaxy.
Now, FOR EACH GRAIN of salt in THAT pile, go back to the store and buy ANOTHER 20,000 boxes of Morton salt and dump them out in your living room. When you are done, you should have a rough approximation of all the stars in the visible universe. Now, figuring that 50% of stars have planets... at least six... perform the next step. For each salt grain, go out and buy THREE MORE boxes of Morton Salt, and dump THEM out on the floor. Now, you should have a rough approximation of the number of planets in the visible universe. Figure that one out of every thousand is habitable (that's very conservative... it's probably more like one in a hundred).
Please... do let us know how you make out.
Technological advances have permitted scientists to 'observe' extrasolar planets by secondary means. Recent observations lead them to conclude that planets around stars are the rule, rather than the exception. Further, current thinking is that there are probably MILLIONS of earth-like planets (rocky planets in the 'habitable' zone of solar systems) within our galaxy ALONE.
2006-09-07 12:21:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This planet isn't perfect for all life, just the kind that happens to be here.
2006-09-07 12:13:52 · answer #7 · answered by stardust 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the deity is still governed by natural law. we are here because it is possible. maybe the other SEVEN were rough drafts. ;)
2006-09-07 12:14:31 · answer #8 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
accidents happen, o well, life happened
2006-09-07 12:17:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋