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HOW and WHY is earth so perfect? Biologically and cosmologically...Is it God?

It's absolutely insane how perfectly the universe supports life on earth? Why?

We are a unique species on a lone planet among billions of galaxies, held down by gravity, rotating at literally 1,040 mph in a universe with no end - around a sun at the exact perfect distance, tilt, and revolution, creating temperature and seasons to sustain organic life. The seasons support ecosystem cycles, rain, oxygen, food, supporting the life of humans and animals, which then support each other. The moon creates waves, stabilizes rotation and magnetic field, providing light when dark. There are literally HUNDREDS of dials on our earth of organic chemicals, airborne materials, and reactions that are tuned perfectly specifically for life.

Without these perfect astrological facts and dials, we would all be extinct. Our ridiculously complicated human body feeds off the result of these facts; water, food, and oxygen. Our skin even has protection against the perfect UV levels (due to the distance to the sun) which reacts to produce vitamin D. Plants also survive through this very specific wavelength of UV energy through photosynthesis to produce oxygen.

Why? Why is everything is perfectly tuned? Why does everything support itself so flawlessly, originating from the cosmological facts? How could it be, among billions of galaxies, that our moon, sun, and earth sustain life so perfectly? We are so alone, yet so complicated/perfect, in the middle of NOWHERE in our universe. Could it be God? The chances of a planet sustain life like earth cannot possibly be repeated.

Update:

I am not religious, I'm agnostic. I just find it mind blowing to consider how perfect it is. No need to be rude and shoot down a religion.

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  • 8 years ago
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    OMG yes! And Ebola is yet another wonderful example. So beautiful! And look at how it turns an innocent childs intestines into soup within a matter of hours! OMG the beauty! And everyone is so attractive! We could all be movie stars! And the Flu virus is wonderful too. Gotta catch 'em all! And oh how beautiful cyanide is! Glorious!

    [/sarcasm]

    So yeah. Nothing is as perfect as they'd have you believe. Nothing is fine-tuned perfectly. There's actually a great margin of error that could've occurred that wouldn't've really changed much of anything. And your assumption that this planet is the only planet that supports life in the entire universe is false and borne of ignorance.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Yes, this is the work of God. I've many times come across scientists saying the universe does appear fine-tuned, and that's why many of them believe there must be many universes and we just happen to live in the right one. But the Bible tells us in Romans 1 that God has made it perfectly clear in nature that He exists.

    And here's another interesting coincidence for you, if you haven't heard of it, that I've seen creationists point out. We only have the eclipses we do because the sun and moon appear to be about the same size:

    "The Sun's distance from Earth is about 400 times the Moon's distance, and the Sun's diameter is about 400 times the Moon's diameter. Because these ratios are approximately the same, the Sun and the Moon as seen from Earth appear to be approximately the same size: about 0.5 degree of arc in angular measure.[6]"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Perfect???? Are you stoned????

    Look, most of that is really easy to shoot down. Earth gets further from the Sun every year. It's not a perfect distance. It's days are getting longer because the Moon is moving away scrubbing off some of that energy. So it's not spinning at any perfect set amount. It rains on Venus, so that's not unique.

    We fit here because we evolved here. We'd have died and something that did fit would be here if we didn't fit.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Fill a shot glass with water.

    Was the shot glass made to hold that particular ounce of water? Or did the water simply confirm to the shape into which it was poured?

    The apparent "fine-tuning" of the universe is the same. We are as we are and the universe...and Earth...had to be the way they are to give rise to what we are. If other conditions were present, we might be very different.

  • 8 years ago

    The earth is far from perfect, biologically or cosmologically. The only people who think it's perfect are those who get all their science information from creationist sources. Those who have studied science in more detail, especially at the college level and above, know just how far from perfect the earth is.

    That, incidentally, is why it's so hard to believe that you're agnostic. You're spouting all the usual creationist propaganda.

  • neil s
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    It is suited to the kind of life we see on Earth. Different laws wouldn't necessarily prevent life, but it would be different life. The life we see fits Earth because it evolved in terms of Earth's laws, not because the laws were not created for the sake of life.

    And nothing about it is "perfect."

    Your final sentence is either a truism or simply false. it is a truism if you want the exact history of Earth repeated. It is simply false if you're saying nothing like Earth could exist anywhere else.

  • 8 years ago

    Earth is not perfect. In 5 billion years, the Sun's radius will extend to Mars because of the hydrogen's conversion to helium in the core. Earth will be a goner

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Obviously it must be the work of the Abrahamic God, and no one else.

    /sarcasm

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