Im in this evolution vs creation debate team and I got a question.?

Question

Im on the Evolution's side for info. Okay the other team asked this question.

"Explain how if the universe was created by chance, the earth just happened to be the perfect distance from the sun and how its elements are perfectly balanced in order to sustain life?"

can you help me???/

Answer 1

First of all, the earth's elements are not perfectly balanced. You will not find the same amount of iron as you would with, lets just say, hydrogen.

Secondly, there is no perfect distance between the sun and the earth. The earth hasn't always sustained life and it took the natural development of an atmosphere over billions of years to make life on earth even possible. There have also been studies that have suggested that Venus was once able to sustain life several billion years ago because Venus' atmosphere was very much like earth's, and that it probably had large amounts of liquid water on the surface. But due to Venus' high CO2 atmosphere, a runaway greenhouse effect caused an extreme climate change to occur. Mars can also theoretically sustain life if terraformming were used to create an atmosphere. Earth is the one of the three possible planets that could sustain life because a natural terraformming event occured that was acceptable enough to sustain life. Of all the billions of years that earth has been a planet, it has only been able to sustain life for a fraction of that time.

If there is a perfect distance, we've either passed it or haven't approached it yet.

After saying all that, the simplest answer is, "right now, after years and years in the making, earth can sustain life. It didn't happen in 7 days."

Answer 2

Well, when someone is capable of explaining how life could have come from non-life adequately (hasn't been done) then one can have an opinion on why the universe wasn't created by an intelligent being...until then it is the realm of so much theory, and they should admit it....instead of saying "it is impossible that life could have been the creation of an intelligent being", they should simply say "we just don't have any way of proving it one way or another"....i'm no fundamentalist christian or anything however my question in response to your question would be, (and sure it's been asked a million times):

If you landed on some distant barren planet and found a computer sitting among the rocks would you:

a)believe it "evolved" by chance?

or

b)believe it was manufactured by an intelligent person?

Or perhaps this is the wrong question....

my only point is that those who believe in chance evolution of the universe/earth seem to impart a certain "intelligence" to nature, so how is that any different from a belief in a god/gods? In reality there is no difference, because to believe in the former, you almost HAVE to believe in the latter, otherwise you are claiming that all the organization in the earth/universe simply all happened for no reason other than OOPS there it is...

Answer 3

The earthe being the perfect distance from the sun could be coincidence, and originally the elements and gases in the atmosphere would not have sustained human life, the earth changed with the evolution of new forms of life, oxygen was introduced into the atmosphere with the evolution of plants which opened the gateway for oxygen breathing creatures to evolve. You could use something to that affect. I'm not sure if that will really work, but I hope it does. I hope you're side wins the debate. Best of Luck.

Answer 4

Not by chance.
Evolution is just the way the creation works, even today.
There is no conflict between creation and evolution. Both are going on in parallel.
It is not that the Earth happened to be in the right spot, it is that our life evolved and adapted itself to the conditions of the Earth.

Today's news: They discovered complex molecules and long carbon chains (the building blocks of life) in the dust collected from the Wild-2 comet mission a few months ago.
Which supports the theory that life spreads everywhere in the universe and it is not exclusive of this planet.

I would be surprised if God created an infinite universe just for us!

Answer 5

That's a nonsense arguement because it's being argued in reverse. It just seems planned because they're looking at the finished product and not the steps it took to get there.

In order for life to come about on this planet certain conditions had to be met. Life happened here and in the form that it took because the planet met those requirements. If it hadn't, then life wouldn't have occured. It would have happened anywhere given the right conditions. With all of the billions upon billions of planets in the Universe, the odds of at least one of them being able to support life, of the conditions being favourable to support life, is pretty good.

Edit: In a way it could be compared to a painting whose composition is that of a multitude of different colours of different sizes splattered about the canvas. I could take different coloured paints and randomly fling it at a canvas. The final product might appear to some to be purposefully done so that it came out exactly the way it did, people pointing to things such as texture, light, positon, amount of colours used in different ares, etc., but all the while the reality of it would be that it just happened to end up that way. The conditions concerning what paint I had and how I randomly splattered it on the canvas just happened to be right to produce the end painting.

Answer 6

Well, as for the earth's elelments being perfectly balanced to sustain life--the life forms on earth adapt to the environment or die out. Millions of years ago the earth's atmosphere wouldn't have sustained a lot of life forms as we know them now. The interaction of organisms with their environment shapes how the environment changes. Also, a lot of life forms have died out over the years--mammoths, saber tooth tigers, dinosaurs, the dodo, this white type of whale/dolphin was just reported extinct. If a life form goes extinct, would you agree that it wasn't able to adapt to its environment? That would mean that the elements are balanced only to sustain certain types of life for limited periods of time. It's possible that thousands or millions of years from now, humans could have made the planet unlivable for themselves.

Also, we haven't really explored a lot of the planets out there. How do we know that life forms don't exist on them? On earth, there are some crazy forms of bacteria and small organisms that live in extreme environments and what they use for respiration and what they excrete (ie-instead of taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide, they take in sulfur and release some other type of gas) is very different than what humans use. It could very well be possible that some forms of extreme bacteria are living on Jupiter, we just don't know it yet. "Life" is a very broad term.

Also, if the Creator just wanted a place to put His creations and thus He created earth--why bother creating the other planets that aren't perfect distances from the sun with perfectly balanced elements? Were they test runs or failed prototypes?

Answer 7

First of all evolution is a theory not a fact no one really 100% knows where did life come from.
scientests try to answer everything by observations & experiments.
Second, Religion is a dogma (belief without a proof), humans try to answer the questions that can't normally "rationally" be answered. That's where philosophy, religion and science come into existence
I used to think about this too much when I found out that I CAN'T find a proper satisfying answer.
these questions are as old as humankind.
If these were to be answered than there would'nt exist either science or religion.
So relax & think whatever you think is closer to the truth.

Answer 8

if you must ask the question in that way then it seems to me you already have an opinion on the answer you favor

i take solace in believing that everthing we are come into excitance throught many inconsievable radom chance. to me its far better then some benevolant being creating everrything that was at one time all perfect but sence the advent of complex technologies it seems that perfection has gone away, why, mabey beacuase the cosmos was never and never will be perfect in our ideals

yes its no better answer to say that the universe just happend then it is to say some being willed into being. but looking out into space we can see places where stars and even planets are forming. in all the cosmos there never will be another world like the earth across 100 billion galaxies.

even if i had the absolute answer the question is would you believe me?

Answer 9

In easiest terms, it's just the opposite. Life came to be because of the way things happened. Things didn't happen in order for there to be life. Our sun is a 3rd generation sun. It is the 'grandson' of the original. And someday, our sun will die out and be replaced. Life as we know it will not be able to make this transition. The first life was on earth millions of years ago. It took millions of years before it got past the virus stage. It took millions more years to get to where we are now. Things evolved around the 'climate' here. If the climate was different, life as we know it never would have started. We evolve because things are condusive for life to develope as it did.
The universe did not happen for us to be here - we are here because the universe allowed it.

Answer 10

You have no case. The question they posed is called the
stargate transpolaric distance. This info suggests and names
the actual date of planets being in measurable quantities such
as 100 million, 200 million in rock formulation. This is known
to be true because in order for interaction to happen the rule
of interactive element is in the equation.