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Is the Earth the result of an incredible sequence of sheer luck? or is it the result of delicate design by a Supreme Being?

last week we had Peter Yoon, a professor who is a physicist from MIT (now teaching at Maryland Univ) talk about God and science.

He asked the fundamental question.
Is the Earth/Life the result of an incredible sequence of sheer luck? or is it the result of delicate design by a Supreme Being?  

Let’s look at it this way, let’s say your playing poker and you get a royal straight flush. and then you get a royal straight flush again, and again, and again... 1000 times in a row. was that sheer luck? or by design?  
 
Let’s say you have a monkey in front of a typewriter. and the monkey types randomly. What are the chances that by typing randomly that monkey will write up Romeo & Juliet? could that happen through sheer luck? or by design?
 
Peter Yoon went over many instances of space and nature where it just couldn't be that life was created by sheer luck. 
Below are just a few of the "just right" one in a billionth chances of a galactic event to happen. 

Earth’s molten metallic core produces a magnetic field, that protects the earth from the radiation explosion of the Sun. Without the protective magnetic field no life can exist, since every living being on earth would die of cancer. Of the 4 rocky inner planets, only Earth has molten core.
 
- Without the moon, no life on earth can exist. (this was discovered 10 years ago). The rotation of the moon around the earth keeps the earth rotation from spinning out of control (like a top spinning out of control). The gravitational pull of the earth keeps the earth and moon in check.

- The habitual zone : If our solar system was in the middle of the milky way, no life exist because the gamma rays would be too harmful for life to survive.  If the solar system was too far from the milky way, there would not be enough chemicals to produce life (life on earth are carbon beings), Thus earth is in a slice of rotation that only life can survive on.

- The sun was much hotter a billion years ago, and at that time mars was in the habitual zone.

- The sun is “just the right” size to emit light to bring life to earth.
- Earth is at “just the right” distance to the sun for sustain a 4 seasonal tilt and rotation for day and night. If the earth were closer, earth would not rotate because of the gravitational pull of the sun would create a tidal lock (one face of the planet continues to face the sun)

- 95% of the stars in the milky way are smaller than our sun. 


- 5% of the sun-like stars in our galaxy, not all of them have planets. 

- Planets with elliptic orbits cannot sustain life.

- Without Jupiter, there would be no water on earth. Jupiter also has to be at just the right distance, and just the right size, or there would be too much water, or too little water on earth.

- Quotes : Most of the Universe if too cold, too hot, too dense, too vacuous, too dark, too bright, or not composed of the right elements to support life... Earth is unique in both it’s physical properties and it’s proven ability to sustain life “ Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth.

- Quotes : If some god-like being could be given the opportunity to plan a sequence of events with the express goal of duplicating our “garden of eden” that power would face a formidable task. With the best intentions, but limited by natural laws and materials, it is unlikely that Earth could ever be truly replicated. Too many processes in its formation involved sheer luck. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth.

Conclusion : Nature reveals the existance of the Creator/Designer who is above and beyond nature. Also, Hugh Ross listed 75 conditions in the universe needed to produce life. each condition is one in a billion “just right” chance. and with 75 in a row? (and that's just what the human race has discovered) it's clear out impossible that another planet in the universe could exist that could sustain life. We are living in just the right time, just the right place, just the right condition for life to exist. We are living in THE ONLY single garden of eden in the whole universe.

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