Some say there is a god where did he or she come from and why this planet out of all the universe?

Question

What are the math odd,s of a god or higher power picking this planet to make mankind?

Answer 1

Who's to say God didn't stop just at this planet? Maybe the universe is God's playground for imagination and he/she is using it to experiment with life forms. You know, "What if I made a methane gas atmosphere and made a life form with 10 tentacles?" Who is to say that our universe isn't an atom on a higher being's fingernail? Think about the odds of that!

Answer 2

Interesting question even if Science cannot answer it, I think there's some place for it in the astronomy section because along with amateur astronomy I for one like wondering about all this stuff.

You cannot calculate any probability for or against the existence of God. You cannot devise any experiment to prove or disprove anything any religion says about God, whether or not He created the universe, why we are here etc. The closest cultural reference I know of, apart from the book of Genesis, is the farcical Hitchhiker's Guide which conjures up a supercomputer that takes millenia to calculate the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything... and finally, with great pomp, it spits out the answer: "42". There is also an Einstein quote on the subject of whether the universe accidentally came into being as a result of random happenstance: Einstein said "God does not play dice".

As for your question about God picking Earth as His place to make humankind, I think there are two answers: There's the Carl Sagan argument which says there is so much room in the universe that it would be impossible for there not to be intelligent life forms elsewhere: so that would make Earth a rather ordinary place... Then there's the anthropic argument which says the reason the universe is so huge is that if it were any smaller, then life and particularly human life right here right now would not have been possible... which seems to confirm some special status for our planet... albeit not excluding life elsewhere.

So in the end, I guess you may find I'm answering your Astronomy & Space question rather inadequately:

God? Don't know.
Human (or intelligent) life only on Earth? Don't know.
Mathematical odds? Cannot compute.

42 maybe... ?

Answer 3

Well, that depends on your assumptions.

If you assume that God is exactly described in judeo-christian-muslim texts, then the odds are 100%. You see, that vision of the universe has everything, every tiny detail, falling according to god's plan. So there was not the slightest chance that any other planet would host us. Because that was not God's will.

Now, if you work from some other set of assumptions, you could numbers ranging from near certainty to infinitesimal. The only thing that we can say for an absolute certainty is that the odds are slightly greater than zero, because it happened, so it can't be impossible.

As to the non-math portion of your question, it all falls under the category of "mysterious ways". It is a major tenant of every monotheistic religion I am familiar with that God has reasons for what He does, and mankind will probably never understand them.

Answer 4

I won't say that there is a God behind everything as it's laid out in the bible, but, I do believe that there IS an intelligent force responsible for our being here on Earth, and for the creation of everything contained within the Universe, including the Universe itself.

We, human beings, are living examples of that which created us. This is evident in the fact of the things that we have created, and in the ideas of things that are yet to be.

At some point in the not too distant future, humans will have created things that will blur the line between human intelligence, and that which is artificial.

We keep insisting that there in no God, yet, in our everyday examples, we push technology further and further, until we create something that is almost as human as us, which may call us the very word that we now reject.

If it is true that these things will be so on Earth in the not too distant future, then what of a civilization that may have arose millions of years before us, imagine what their technology might be like....... that's if it can even be recognized by human brains.

If it's the calling of birds to fly south, or a turtle to swim towards the sea, could it be the calling of human beings to recreate life, planets, solar systems, galaxies, and even a Universe? Well, looking at how we make use of technology, and how it's shaping the future, I'd say so.

If we have no prior knowledge of what we were before breathing our first breath of life, who is to say that it was not given to us? :)

Answer 5

Everything in nature makes more sense if you leave a god or gods out of the equation. Why try to complicate everything by adding a god or gods into the equation when we can't even prove the existence of a god or gods. Might as well look at the facts to try to answer the unknowns. If it turns out in the future that we can prove the existence of a god or gods, then it would be helpful to add god or the gods into the equation.

All you religious people may now commence with the thumbs down.

Answer 6

Pretty low.

Think of the odds. Odds a planet is made. Odds life evolves. Odds that mankind comes up. The unlikely chance we made it this far (where is God's help by the way?). Odds we made it this far without a god...

Then think, if it's SOOOO unlikely that we were made... just how unlikely would it be that there is something INFINITELY more complex, more powerful, more advanced than man so that he would be able to make us out of "dust"?

The odds we were made by chance are probably better than the odds that we were made by something more complicated than us, because if so, what are the odds of something that complicated being made in the first place?

Of course, we forget a fundamental truth, we made god in the first place, by writing a book and inventing just another Zeus-like fictional character.

Answer 7

The existence of a god (or "the" God, or any god) is disputable. Not counting religious texts (biased) or personal beliefs (biased, too), there is no evidence for or against the existence of gods.

Now, why this one planet has intelligent life, while most others have nothing? This question is still open. Please see the sources for more information.

Answer 8

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."- Carl Sagan
These are questions mankind has been pondering since he was able.
This question often times leads to heated debates between the Theists and non- theists.
I just thought I'd drop that rather profound little quote in there.
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Answer 9

Hmm...I sense unbelief. God is eternal, that means always has been and always will be. As to why this plant, because there were none at the time. He created this planet, along with everything on it, and all the other celestial bodies as well. No one can apply math, or any science to one who has brought all we know into existence, including science.
God provided the means for gravity to exist, as well as all our other natural laws; and if He wanted, He could do away with them. Cool, huh?
"The fool has said in his heart there is no god."

Answer 10

I am who am. The enduring mystery of G-d is that He Is, Was, and shall be.

The odds? 1:1. The planet wasn't picked, it was made for us. The conditions are right because they were created that way.