Isn't it strange how 'perfect' the world is? Coincidence or not?

Question

For life to occur the conditions of a planet have to be just right. Think about it. Think of earth and then all the other lifeless planets we know of.

-Some planets are far too hot or cold (too cold means no liquid water)
-Most planets have no air, or poisonous atmospheres
-Some planets have crushing pressures

In a way the conditions on Earth are almost 'just right', is this too lucky to be a coincidence?

Answer 1

Not true. There is life on every extreme on our planet. From miles below the Earth's surface, without sunlight or oxygen. To bacteria thriving in Death Valley, with no water and searing heat. Or life living in highly toxic acid, deadly to humans but to them, it is paradise. Even if the Earth was closer or farther from the sun, life would have evolved on Earth but it might not have been human.

Most humans have this imagined self importance about our place in the universe. Which goes hand in hand to a belief in god. "The creator of the universe looks just like me!" Life finds a way to evolve, even without water. All you need is some kind of liquid to allow molecules free movement. Liquid helium or hydrogen or fluorocarbons, like on Titan, a moon of Saturn.

Then what about the other planets in the cosmos, there are no doubt, billions of other worlds out there. They all have some form of life, mostly bacteria but alot have intelligence of some kind. Life finds away to survive and the two keys to survival or time and death. The enormous amount of time for evolution to do it's work and the death of other species.

Answer 2

Sure life is improbable. But that's just it. It's improbable but not impossible. Astronomers are getting close to finding planets just like Earth. We've surveyed a tiny fraction of a fraction of stars in the galaxy and we're finding planets all over the place. Even though life is improbable in this universe, the fact that there are so many galaxies and so many stars and so many planets means that life is probably very common.

Answer 3

Well - you happen to live on a planet that has the conditions to promote life. Your ancestors evolved (yes they did!) to eventually come up with you, who has language. The fact that the planet had the conditions to bring you here is simply inevitable. You could not have evolved on one of the many planets that does not support life and therefore, would not have been there to ask the question at all.

Answer 4

You should spend some time researching probability and the number of galaxies that exist.

Doesn't it make sense that life should evolve on a temperate planet with a stable atmosphere? It seems to me that the fact that this planet can support life is the reason that life exists here.

You might have a point if life appeared on some planet that would not support life.

Answer 5

the inspiration of the belief is that the only purpose for the universe to exist replaced into to grant a habitation for people of the type we've. If we've self assurance that then it could shop on with that on condition that the rest does no longer have created us there ought to have been a guiding intelligence working with us in concepts. in case you do no longer settle for a humanocentric concept of the universe the belief falls aside. for my area i think of that when the Gods created the Universe in addition they created the organic regulations by employing which it could function, and evolution is in simple terms a mechanism interior of those regulations by employing which existence got here to exist, adapt, and diversify. that still means that if we wreck the surroundings we ought to exist we are able to wreck ourselves to boot. Extinction of failed species is an element of the organic order to boot.

Answer 6

If the conditions weren't right, life never would have started. So it really isn't a coincidence. We are here because the conditions are right here.

As far as luck, when you have billions and billions of stars with even more planets, there are going to be lots of places with the right conditions.

Answer 7

Yes I agree, finely tuned to a much farther degree than most realize. The moon, it's size and orbit makes life maintainable. If there was no moon the orbit of the earth on it's axis would wobble and the seasons would be thrown way off, making crop production impossible and life, unsustainable. The distance from the earth to the sun, the size and magnitude of the sun...the size and steady orbit of the moon, the distance of our solar system from the center of our galaxy and from other stars...Even the angle of axis of the earth as it turns is all seemingly set up specifically to support life on earth. What a remarkable God we have.

Answer 8

No, not a coincidence. We evolved to fit the planet; it wasn't created to fit us. Why would we have methane-breathing lungs on an oxygen-rich planet? How long would we last?

Answer 9

Just think about it for a moment. Image God looking at His wonderful creation made special for His children. You know, God had to create this entire nothing so we could have a place to call home.

God took nothing and made everything. And you what? He did it out of Love for each and everyone of us.

Then a certain angel named Lucifer was found to have pride in himself. He convinced 1/3rd of all of God's children to abandon God and follow after him and all the angels that sided with him.

God needed to do something about it and killing His children was out of the question. But what to do???

God recreated all of His children and gave them flesh bodies to replenish the Earth that had been flooded.

The rest of the story is best read in the wonderful Book of the Beginning. The Book of Geneses.><>

Answer 10

Odds are better of me buying a lotto ticket every week and winning the jackpot of the state lotto for 1 million years I read.

Odds are better for a tornado to hit a junkyard and construct a fully functioning 747 airplane than it is for life as we know it to exist.

But who am I? 1 man with 1 opinion. Thats mine.

David