Daniel Smith
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| Quote (oldmanintheskydidntdoit @ Oct. 07 2007,06:25) | | Quote (Daniel Smith @ Oct. 07 2007,05:59) | I think similar levels of detail can be found in the earth's various systems in regards to their near perfect fitness for life. Also, the cosmos, the sun, the moon, all these things are so arranged and physical properties so ordered as to be perfect for life on this planet as well. Certainly atomic principles and the composition of matter and energy are also remarkable. The properties of water, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, light, gravity, etc. are all things which appear to behave as if planned out in advance for the purpose of life on this planet. I can't think of anything that just appears to be random. Can you?
So I guess my example would be to compare a human laboratory - where man provides a controlled environment for certain lifeforms to reside - to the earth and its environment. |
Well, what about the rest of the known universe. In the entire volume of the known universe this planet hosts the only known lifeforms.
Therefore the composition of "matter and energy" may seem remarkable to you for hosting life as we know it, but to me it seems more remarkable that this same matter and energy configuration appears to only host that life at one particular locus. Why would that be, if that configuration is explicitly designed to foster life as we know it?
More remarkable is the lack of ET then the finding of it here, if indeed our particular solar system is designed and the rules are designed, why not the planet next door? Why is Mars not thriving? It's very earth like, at least as good as we're gonna get anytime soon in person. Hollywood are already there!
If it was all planned out in advance, why for only 1 planet in the known universe?
We've started to identify details about extrasolar planets now. Photos even.
What does your theory say about life elsewhere in the universe? Predicts it? Y/N?
I suppose what I'm really asking Daniel, is do you consider the entire known universe intelligently designed for the purpose of hosting life on this planet?
I mean, if the solar system is designed, why stop there?
If it is designed, then why did it appear to end there? |
I know it sounds like a cop-out but all designers make choices that many of us don't understand. If we cannot directly ask a designer why they made certain choices, the best we can hope for is to examine their designs and try to make an educated guess based on what we observe.
I can't do any more than guess as to "why" God did what he did, but my best guess is that he made life rare in the universe so that; as we delve more deeply into it's intricacies, we might become more keenly aware of the delicate and highly improbable balances required for it's mere existence and might be more deeply in awe of the mind that created - not only life - but the very conditions in which it thrives.
As for there being other lifeforms on other planets; we've already covered that in this thread and I made a couple predictions:
1. That we won't find other planets with life on them.
and (to cover my butt),
2. If we do find life elsewhere it will be remarkably similar to life on earth.
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"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance." Orville Wright
"The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question." Richard Dawkins
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