Question about evolution. If evolution is a progression, are the other planets in our solar system behind?
earth or more advanced? As far as man can detect, there is no life on any planet. At least nothing they are sure of. That being the case, has life not evolved there yet, or has it evolved, ran its course, and died out? In evolution, life forms should be able to adapt to various settings- hot, cold, air, no air, gravity, no gravity. I could go on, but you get the idea. Didn't the molecules that exploded in the big bang theory, come from somewhere in space? They evidently adapted and grew into other things. Why can't we find much significant life on other planets? Why is it unrealistic to believe that's just the way God made things? PS just saying that there is no such thing as God, doesn't explain why there is no detectable life elsewhere.
Innocent2008-01-30T00:20:40Z
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Understanding that it is very difficult to believe that all the precise laws that make the universe and everything in it operate on and with could have been designed. So with this being so difficult to understand it is explained as just happening by those who profess great intellect.
Science has been very effective in explaining the origin. In all their attempts to explain that it just happened more knowledge surfaces to prove the opposite, therefore producing more research which in turn continues to prove that something way more intelligent than science itself created these laws. Sciences greatest accomplishment has been to find these laws and give them names, descriptions and use of.
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Newton did not invent Inertia he just found it and gave it the name and description. The precise law of movement was already there.
Since science use precise laws in an effort to prove these laws were not a product of design, would that no lead one to believe that science itself has belief that the laws did not just happen. Is it not true that all mathematical calculations have precise laws that underpin them. If in turn science did not believe these laws they would not use them to develop their formulas and equations.
Science did not develop the laws but only the equations that comply with these laws as relative. Did not Einstein himself prove that so?
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Say the computer: One of man's greater creations.. What would be the chances of a large quantity of plastic and metal piled up in the middle of a warehouse all of a suddenly turning into a computer with designs and precise law to make it operate? ……… Would your answer be..Well it just happened... certainly not.
Why is that? Simply because man can readily accept creation, design and precise law if they created it. However they can not accept that something is more Intelligent than them so they explain away the creation of the universe with….Well it just happened, then set about a path with the belief that man's intellect will prove it so by using the same precise laws they are attempting to prove wrong and that being no creation or design. Instead….Bang Bang Bang It just happened. ...Rather Vain of them isn't it?
Mercury is too hot to have liquid water, and the only kind of life we know about depends on liquid water. It also has no atmosphere, as it's not massive enough to hold onto one. Jupiter and Saturn don't have solid surfaces, and have quite noxious atmospheres -- they're not places that are conducive to life. Venus could have been...but a runaway greenhouse effect from too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has made it way too hot and the atmosphere too toxic for life to develop there. Why is the simple fact that life emerged and evolved in our solar system on the only planet that has the right conditions any kind of proof against evolution? If anything, it's proof *for* evolution -- in the one place in our solar system where our kind of life could emerge and evolve, it did. If "god" has anything to do with it, why would he bother to make any other planets at all? They serve no purpose for "his" creation here, so they're just wasteful. We *think* it might be possible for non-carbon-based life to exist...but as yet we don't have any evidence for it. So the answer is we don't know, not "goddidit." When we find planets around other stars that can and do support life (which may be carbon-based or may not), then we can answer the question. Until then, "we don't know" is the only correct answer -- there's no evidence that shows any god had anything to do with any of it. Peace.
Life depends on the preconditions. We are lucky enough to have a planet ´with hge water resources which is deemed necessary for life. We are also close enough to the sun that it is not too hot or too cold (although life develops deep in the oceans where there is no sunlight and extremely high sulphur levels).
The problem with searching for life in the universe is the huge distances that need to be covered. If weare studying a planetary system 1 million light years away, or if we picked up a signal from such a planet, we are effectively only confirming that life existed on that planet 1 million years ago.
To date several planets have been found within earth range of their stars and with a probability of water on them.
If evolution is a 1 billion to one chance then then chance are that life has evolved on 1 billion planets. There are an extimated 1 billion billion stars and each of those most likely has a planetary system.
So in short we are not sayinf that there is no life elsewhere, but were are simply stating that it is extremely difficult to detect this life due to the shear distance that needs to be covered.
You mentioned evolution as a progression. Do you really think man is getting better in things such as way of life, making good decisions, getting alone better with each other or are we regressing? We know from bible study that we are living in the rest day of God. After He made man He rested from His creation. What will happen in the future with regards to creation we do not know. When things are brought back to a perfect state here on earth under His Kingdom, we will just have to wait and see what He has in store for His creation.
Evolution *isn't* a progression. It's much more "Whatever works, out of whatever's around." Which means failure rather more often than success: 99% of all known species are extinct. No success or progress for them, and we've not been arouind long enough to know if we're any good, or just another flash in the pan.
Don't confuse the modern myth of progress and development (largely based on human technology) with actual evolutionary processes. If conditions change to favour shellfish over humans, shellfish it will be. Will that be "progress", too? Not from the human perspective, but the universe will care little about that.
Mars is an older planet: further from the Sun, it cooled earlier than the Earth. One possibility that has been suggested is that life on Earth *did* come from Mars. Check on "exogenesis" Little bits of Mars (meteorites) have been found on Earth... The idea that life, or at least complex molecules, came from further out in space is known as "panspermia" and there are several sub-hypotheses under that heading.
But overall I'm afraid your question reveals you need to do a lot of reading: your views are being built on massive misunderstandings of abiogenesis, evolution and cosmology.