Or a divine engineer who knew what He was doing?
2007-10-28 13:32:11 · 34 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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the laws of this or that??? Where did the "laws" stem from? So a law created the Sun? Great....
2007-10-28 13:39:14 · update #1
I don't think it was millions of years Even naturalists are puzzled that the suns temperature would be very different billions and millions of years back. Stick with thousands not millions but you raise a good point. A star must be very stable, most are not. Our sun is very stable.
If a planet is too close it doesn't spin well as the moon, venus and mercury have days that ate much too long .
A planet needs a good sized moon for tides... ours is the largest moon compared to the other know 67 or more moons in the solar system and most suitable for tides...not too close not too far
A planet need a magnetic field. Happily our moon is NOT magnetic and does not interfere with our magnetic field so our atmosphere isn't blown away by solar winds. Accident? I think not
one could point to the carbon cycle and many other things but the earth is a blue jewel in the universe and no accident
happily we dont live on those gas giants. First the winds are more than 1000mph and second the radiation would kill you in less than a minute and third in the unlikely event the radiation and higher than tornado winds didnt getcha the pressure and cold would. You kow what they say about that moon of saturn with the ocean they went to that turned out to be liquid methane "ALien and Predator wouldn't live long enough there to have a decent fight"
2007-10-28 13:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Option A: God(s)
Option B: The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Option C: The Laws of Physics
Option D: The Invisible Pink Unicorn
Option E: None of the above
I don't know about you, but I think I'll stick with C
2007-10-28 13:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by qxzqxzqxz 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Kepler's law. Stable orbits can happen pretty easily.
Also, don't dismiss random chance. There are billions of stars out there in our galaxy, alone. A string of random random events to create a life-suitable world on which intelligence evolves isn't far fetched when there are so many chances.
2007-10-29 07:15:10 · answer #3 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The laws of physics, specifically centrifugal force and gravity.
As far as "divine engineers" go, it's important to keep in mind that what is seen as perfect balance by US is only perfect balance by *default* . . . the laws of physics are neither divine nor immutable, but simply an inevitable and logical consequence of the Big Bang. This is not the only POSSIBLE universe, nor are they the only POSSIBLE laws . . . both are simply how things turned out.
Similarly, Earth is "perfect" for life as we know it only because life as we know it evolved in *these* conditions; other forms of life could just as easily evolve in a broad range of OTHER conditions, which would seem just as "perfect" for them.
2007-10-28 13:45:15 · answer #4 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no reason why the Earth is in the Sun's habitable zone. It just is. The planet Jupiter and its massive gravitational influence on the inner planets helps to keep the orbits of Venus, Earth, and Mars stable.
2007-10-28 13:38:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A few things.
The Moon, Mars, even the Sun plays a role in this.
It's simply gravity at it's best, forget religion, forget superstition, it's simply our galaxy at work.
Everything around plays a role in our current position, if the Moon moves too far away which it currently is moving away but at an extremely slow rate, then our planet will most likely drift.
2007-10-28 13:37:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
In the universe, there are billions of billions upon billions of gaseous balls (suns) that are surrounded by orbiting chunks of rock and minerals that we have called "planets". Out of the billions upon billions of billions of planets out there in the universe, there are SOME that have conditions suitable to support life. Earth happens to be one of those planets. It's not a great miracle. Just because the conditions are suitable to support life, doesn't mean that it was CREATED to support life. Life evolved to fit the conditions, the conditions were not "designed" around some pre-existing blueprint of our bodies.
*IF* there was only one planet in the entire universe, and it just happened to have conditions that are suitable to support life, then I would concede that it was miraculous.
2007-10-28 13:59:52 · answer #7 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many things that contribute to life on Earth. Our precise distance from the sun is only one. The delicate mixture of elements and our atmosphere help. It has also been stated that our moon is required for life to exist as we know it.
Many things working in perfect harmony. Some will see this as proof of a god and/or goddess, others will se this as a wonderful accident. Regardless of your beliefs, it comes down to physics and chemistry.
Whether you believe that physics and chemistry are strictly functions of reality or the creations of deities is entirely up to you.
2007-10-28 13:45:30 · answer #8 · answered by pagancowboyjoe 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Earth does not maintain its orbit "to support life", it just happened to work out that way.
Yours is a form of the "fine tuning" argument. As Richard Carrier points out, the laws of nature seem best suited to form black holes, with the emergence of life being a byproduct of this reality. So, your "engineer" wanted black holes and happened to get us in the bargain?
2007-10-28 13:41:03 · answer #9 · answered by neil s 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Chi ... I dont mean to come down on you
because I believe in God also
however if we look at this from another angle..
isnt it possible that we are here on this earth and not on Mars or any other planet because of its position and how it is inhabitable and not because we were given this planet and the sun at the right distance ?
2007-10-28 13:39:10 · answer #10 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋