Our Amazing Spaceship Earth

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“Certainly, our type of galaxy optimizes habitability,” explains Guillermo Gonzalez, “because it provides safe zones. And Earth happens to be located in a safe zone, which is why life has been able to flourish here . . .

Places with active star formation are very dangerous, because that’s where you have supernovae exploding at a fairly high rate. In our galaxy, those dangerous places are primarily in the spiral arms, where there are also hazardous giant molecular clouds. Fortunately, though, we happen to be situated safely between the [Milky Way’s] Sagittarius and Perseus spiral arms” (quote by Strobel, p. 169).

This clear zone is a good vantage point for viewing our own galaxy and the rest of the universe—once again demonstrating the way our exploratory spaceship is set up for cosmic discovery.

Conclusion

All we can infer from the precise natural laws and the fine-tuned features of our planet is that the earth was optimally designed for life and for scientific understanding. Even a skeptical astrophysicist such as Stephen Hawking admits as much on the matter of life. “Wheeler agrees with Hawking and Carter,” writes John Boslough, “that our own universe is uniquely fine-tuned to produce life, even if in just one small, lost corner” (Stephen Hawking's Universe, 1985, p. 125).

After surveying the astronomical and biological evidence, biochemist Michael Denton comes to this conclusion: “Four centuries after the scientific revolution science has provided no significant evidence that any alternative life is possible... Scientific exploration has found no token of another life, no shred of evidence for something other than ourselves or of our type of life as it exists on earth.

“On the contrary, science has revealed a universe stamped in every corner, riven in every tiny detail, with an overwhelmingly and all-pervasive biocentric [life-centered] and anthropocentric [human-centered] design.”

So here we are, traveling on this spaceship called earth, and everything we see around us is carefully designed and calibrated to sustain our existence.

[41:53]  We will show them our PROOFS IN THE HORIZONS, and within themselves, until they realize that this is the truth. Is your Lord not sufficient as a witness of all things?

[39:67]  They can never fathom the greatness of GOD. The whole earth is within His fist on the Day of Resurrection. In fact, the universes are folded within His right hand.  Be He glorified; He is much too high above needing any partners.

[Ed.’s note: This article was authored by Mario Seiglie and published in Good News Magazine. The link to the original article is here. Most of the article is reproduced here with the Quranic verses adopted by brother N.Q./Toronto]

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