Is it really just coincidence or masterful design?

Question

They say if we had no moon, the Earth as we know it could not exsist.
If water did not expand when frozen, the Earth as we know it would not exsist.
The list of requirements goes on and on. So, is it intelligent design or did we just luck out by meeting all of the correct requirements to have the earth we have?

Answer 1

By creating the heavens and the earth, your disbelief in God is evident. If you seek a meaningful answer, consult Genesis and then pray to God, asking Him why He made such a perfect design. Otherwise, I guess atheists feel like we are just really, really, REALLY lucky to be alive the way the earth is distanced from the sun, the moon giving tides, and the ecology of our ecosystem.

Thankfully for atheists that evolution theory exists, otherwise our schools would have better equipped our kids for real life instead of giving in to every gripe and complaint and teaching that life should play by their own rules......

Anyways, I could go on, but yes, the moon is very important, mostly for sea life, which does affect us, since a dead sea environment means a dead land environment......

Answer 2

A wise man once said, "The complete description of a problem is half of the solution".

I submit that to FULLY answer your question, one must also answer the question "How could the universe have come into being, out of nothing, all by itself".
Without the universe there would be no moon, ice, or us.
I other words, where did the raw materials for your question come from?

You have two options:
1) the universe has always existed and had no beginning, or,
2) the universe did have a beginning and came into existence out of nothing.
Notice that there is no third option.

Astronomical evidence leans heavily in favor of a universe with a beginning, the Big Bang.

Science concerns itself with two main things: Cause & Effect.

Even the most uninitiated can plainly see the logical inconsistancy of a universe beginning without an initiator, and every scientist knows that even if a universe could appear out of nothing...it wouldn't do it for no reason.

The question of the origin of the universe is not a matter of opinion, like 'what's the greatest song ever written'.
It is a question with a real answer.

Answer 3

I honestly don't believe we know enough to decide one way or the other. The best science can do is point to evolution -- but that is just a theory, and theories have been proved wrong.

All we can really do is wait until more discoveries are made that may give us a better clue to where it all started. That's partly what the space missions are about.

Personally I have *faith* that there is intelligent life out there, possibly superior to our own. The odds are simply too small that we could be the only intelligent beings in the vast cosmos.

So whether or not there is really a "God" or master designer of the universe, I'm convinced that intelligence of some kind exists beyond earth.

Answer 4

Eri brought up the simplest, yet the best answer to this question:

the earth wasn't made for us, but we were made for earth (that's were evolution and natural selection comes in).

Scientists also estimate that there are app 100 billion galaxies in our observable universe. Also, there are app. 200 billion to 400 billion stars just in our galaxy. It is only reasonable that at least SOME of those stars also houses a planetary system, and SOME of those might contain a planet suitable for life form from earth.

Some people are also forgetting another important point; there is NO guarantee that extraterrestrial life forms are in anyway similar to us. They could be silicon based instead of carbon based , or made up in a completely different manner that we're unfamiliar with. Just take a look at the life form in the deep sea (like tube worms) that live in tremendous amount of pressure, scorching heat, and toxic flumes of sulfur.

Conclusion? Yes for all these things to happen so that a great diversity of life can flourish for billions of years is rare, but at the same time, the universe is astronomically large place, and hardly requires an intelligent designer. Also note again, that the earth wasn't made for us, but WE were made for earth.

Answer 5

Not design or luck. The life on Earth developed to suit the conditions that are here. You are assuming that humans have to exist somewhere, so why here, but actually they don't have to exist, it just so happens that they do. Sorry, that's a bit complex but so is the subject. So if conditions had been different other species would heve evolved and we would never have existed to worry about it. Also most people have no proper concept of Time, how long it really takes to evolve a species. We're talking millions of years here to make minor changes and if you have enough time, anything can evolve. 2 million years from now I think there will be no sign of humanity on Earth, we will be extinct and all our inventions wiped out by geology. And 2 million years is not a long time.

Answer 6

Einstein is reported as saying that the element of chaos in the universe points to a Creator.
Had everything expanded from a big bang, it should have done so uniformly.
In other contexts, people would say that a series of coincidences, such as that required for life on earth, is absurd.
Why not admit it in this context?

Answer 7

OK, there are several possible answers to this question.

1. Yes, life "as we know it" may not have existed if for example the moon wasn't there. But there might well have been a *different* form of life. We evolved in response to the environment; there's no reason to think the environment was created for us.

2. Even if for some reason life couldn't have developed on our world, there potentially billions or trillions of planets out there - and life could have developed on any of them. So the odds of your "coincidence" are not as unlikely as you think.

3. Water expanding when it freezes is one consequence of the fundamental properties of matter. There's no reason to think that it could possibly have been any different. So your dichotomy between "design" and "coincidence" is a false one, when you ignore "necessity".

Answer 8

This was written by a friend of mine, Lloyd Pye, in his book, "Everything You Know Is Wrong" : "To agree with the 'theory of Evolution', is to agree to the possibility of a whirlwind, whipping up all the junk in a scrap yard and it all coming together and flying off as a fully equipped 'Jumbo Jet'."
All the fossil evidence, including the 'sudden' appearances of the various human species (and the lack of 'missing links'), added to complexity of everything else, really does point to intelligent involvement in 'our' origin on this planet, and, because I find it difficult to accept that a God created us (because, if he/she/it, being so omnipotent and powerful and 'perfect', would have done a FAR better job, eg, none of the bad things we suffer, if that was the case, though I don't dismiss there being a God, especially when I contemplate what the universe is all about and what's beyond it?), I am left with the only other possible answer. That we must have been put here by other humans. Humans that are so far advanced that we wouldn't even be able to start comprehending their ways, means and achievements. It IS feasible. If we accept that there must be life on other planets, out of the countless trillions of them, and it is also feasible that some of that life could be 'BILLIONS' of years older than us. Makes you think, dosen't it?

Edit

My first, 'thumbs down', obviously, as expected, from the 'evolutionist's cult'!!!

Answer 9

This is a good question. We lucked out. By billions and billions to one. If the big bang happened a nanosecond later, it would have had an impact on how we developed. That is why I say to all those who think there is another habitable planet, (or aliens!) to get real, there isn't any. We were given this by chances to great too ever repeat again, maybe by God. We'll never see the like again. There is no second chance planet, no other beings. Just us

Answer 10

And your just speaking about the masterful design you can see with the eye... The numerous dimensions and plains of existence that are, but probably never will be proven in our 4 dimension space-time present lives... IT does and will continue to completely @~#? my mind for many years to come the amazement of true creation, hidden and dogma associated by pea brained, narrow minds, no it alls, not worthy of been show any tiny snippet of truth for the path to true sublimation... Its hidden due to the concepts of FREE WILL and FAITH

Answer 11

If all these and many more factors eg the relationship between the forces, charges didn't exist, there would be no one around to observe them because sentient (or otherwise) life would not exist. We can factor god from the equation by simply postulating a multiplicity of universes, of which this one is merely one that's conducive to life. Evidence belongs to science, faith belongs to religion. Proof to neither.