Are all the stars & planets really necessary for Earth to exist?

Question

Are they all really tied together so intricately?

Would it cause a ripple effect if you remove a single star or planet or push it off course?

Or will things stay the same here on Earth? Why do we have so many useless stars & planets that we can't even see if they aren't necessary?

Why would God make the "invisible" stars billions of light years away for? What good are they other than looking at them with super high powered modern telescopes?

A little un-necessary hard to find eye candy? For all the work its caused, it doesn't seem worth the trouble?

What possible purpose can a sun or planet or rock barrier have so far out in space?

Answer 1

If a tree falls in a forest and noone is around, is there a noise? Many of your questions seem of the same vein, which is not to be critical, since it is Man's curiousity of why are we here? etc.

Starting with the main question, Big Bang theory says we all started off from a superdense chunk of universe of minimal mass. Once it got going, it kept on going. Part of it formed the earth, part formed the sun, part formed other stars, etc.

From that point of view, if stars and planets never formed, neither would have the earth.

As for your other question, if one star goes poof, its effect would be noted locally, in a relative term. If the sun blew up or Jupiter jumped out of orbit and became a comet, the solar system would have mucho problems. But it wouldn't influence the total universe due to its immensity. Suppose you added a drop of fuming sulfuric acid to the ocean. What happens?

Answer 2

You are speaking as if the only life in the universe in on Earth. I think differently. There has to be life out there that is more intelligent than what we see on this dirt ball of a planet.Bernard's star is off course. And there are supernovas. Does that mean that it is the end of the world. And if you think God made the universe, maybe you should read the bible and stop questioning God. I believe in evolution, the big bang, and the universe will expand forever. You look at one galaxy, with 300 billion stars in it and tell me ,how many useless stars are in that galaxy?

Answer 3

All the stars move around constantly, its just hard to detect with out instruments. You have more of an effect on the earth walking to the refrigerator than 99.999999999999999999999999% of all stars have on the earth. Also, your whole premise is that earth is the Big Cheese in the universe and the rest of the universe exists for our pleasure.. It isn't. Earth is a big deal to you because you live here but the earth is nothing to the galaxy, let alone the universe..

Answer 4

I think that if you disturb a distant star or planet, you will not cause significant changes to the Earth for the most part.

I personally, am not religious. However, if God made us then he would probably created the distant stars and planets because he wanted to. Not everything God does has to influence us. Even though we're special to him, it does not mean that we're the only thing he has going. Maybe he created it for a reason we do not understand.

Answer 5

yes it would cause a ripple effect, the same way it would change your family history if we pushed your great great grand father off his course. No things in your life would not be the same yes you would have a great great grand father but not the the one who your great great grandmother wanted to start her journey with. the stars that you cant see are not useless they are just kids like you that your great great grandparents did not see. the rock and sun barrier has a purpose to and that purpose is to keep other objects out of its atmosphere that will cause death and destruction.

Answer 6

its all relative again. since we are in earth,we dont see other stars to be important. but we dont know how many planets are revolving those stars. there may be another replica of earth.there may be life sustaining in it. so there may be a detrimentive effect to those planets, if it looses those stars around which it revolves.


for us the billions of stars may be invinsible. but a planet which sustains life revoling around those stars may ask the same question.we may be millions of light years away from them.

The purpose of the sun is to keep the planets in its orbit. imagine if there is no sun? there will be no orbit and no satilite revolving around, no mordern day communication, no light, no time sense, no gravity, no life could sustain in earth and when you go deed in to this subject this will lead us to vedantha.

Answer 7

They're here! They're here! They've landed! Over on the mall! They've landed!
We have come to visit you in peace and with goodwill.
I'm worried about Gort. I'm afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me.
Gort? But he's a robot. Without you, what could he do?
There's no limit to what he could do. He could destroy the Earth.
I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet. But if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder.
Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!

Answer 8

According to creationism, absolutely not. According to reality, any given star is unimportant, but if it hadn't been for early stars and supernovas, none of the heavy elements (anything heavier than helium perhaps) would have formed meaning no earth and no life.

Answer 9

The only star that is necessary is the Sun and the only rock that is necessary is the Moon.

Answer 10

Perhaps they were all practice. It took that many tries for God to get Earth right.