It seems that every week a new report comes out from the scientific community, that a planet has been discovered where “life is possible”. What is not stated, is that the variables necessary to make human life possible are categorically Impossible.
In a previous article, (Click Here) I detail the finely tuned environment necessary for earth to support human life, and the fact that it is virtually impossible for these conditions to exist, unless someone designed these specific conditions and continues to control them, to make life possible on earth.
Uniqueness in the placement of Earth in the Universe, and the specific placement of the Milky Way Galaxy in the Universe:
Galaxy size
If our Milky Way was too large: The infusion of gas and stars would disturb our sun’s orbit and ignite deadly galactic eruptions and burn up the earth. If The Milky Way was too small: The infusion of gas would be insufficient to sustain star formation long enough for life to form
Galaxy type
If The Milky Way was too elliptical: star formation would cease before sufficient heavy elements formed for life chemistry. If it was too irregular: radiation exposure would be too severe (at times) and life-essential heavy elements would not form
Galaxy location
If the Milky Way was too close to another dense galaxy cluster: that galaxy would destroy all life on earth.
The number of number of stars in our solar system.
If we had more than one star: tidal interactions would make the orbits of life-supportable planets too unstable for life. Most other Solar systems do have more than one star, why do we only have one?
Our Sun’s age
If the Sun was older or younger: It would be much brighter and make life impossible. There is an age of a star in which its brightness is perfect for life, we just happen to be at this perfect place in our suns life.
The Sun’s mass
If the Sun was Larger: It would burn up so quickly Life would not be possible on earth. If the Sun was smaller: it would throw off our rotation around it, and make life impossible.
The Sun’s color is white, which makes life possible. Most Stars are Red, or Blue
If redder or bluer: There would not be enough light to grow plants.
Size of our Moon, and placement of our moon
The earth has a huge moon orbiting around it, which scientists now know:
- Did not come from the earth itself.
- Could not have been captured by the earth’s gravity, because the moon is so huge..
The best explanation (other than outright miracle) for the moon’s existence is that a Mars-sized planet crashed into the earth around 4.25 billion years ago. The probability of two planets colliding in the same solar system is extremely remote. The moon is moving away from the earth (currently at 2 inches per year), as it has been since its creation. If we calculate backwards we discover that the moon must have formed at just about 7,300 miles above the earth’s surface.
Why is the moon important to life on earth?
In the creation of the Moon, by a collision from another planet with the earth, it resulted in the ejection of the majority of the earth’s original atmosphere which probably was toxic. If this collision had not happened, we would have had an atmosphere similar to that of Venus, which is 80 times that of the earth (equivalent to being one mile beneath the ocean). Such a thick atmosphere on Venus resulted in a runaway greenhouse affect, leaving a dry planet with a surface temperature of 800°F. For some strange reason, we have a very thin atmosphere – just the right density to maintain the presence of liquid, solid and gaseous water necessary to life (coincidence or design?).
The size of the Moon causes the Earth to rotate at only 1,000 miles per hour.
Scientists now know that the earth originally had a rotational period of eight hours. Such a rapid rotational period would have resulted in surface wind velocities in excess of 500 miles per hour.
Hydrogen-Helium
If the solar system had less Hydrogen and Helium the molecules essential to planet formation and life chemistry would never form. If the solar system had to much Hydrogen and Helium planets would form at the wrong time and place for life
Earths Gravity is perfectly balanced
If Earth had stronger gravity, our planet’s atmosphere would retain too much ammonia and methane for life. If the Earth’s gravity was weaker: Earths atmosphere would lose too much water for life.
Earths distance from the sun
If we were farther from the Sun, Earth would be too cool for a stable water cycle. If Earth were closer to the Sun The Earth would be too warm for a stable water cycle
The angle of Earth orbit
If our orbit around the Sun was too great: the temperature range on the planet’s surface would be too extreme for life
Earth’s Axial tilt
If the Earth’s tilt on her axis was more than 23.5 degrees, Earth’s surface temperature differences between night and day would be too great to sustain diverse life-forms. If our axis tilt was less than 23.5 Degrees: same result.
Earths Rotation of 1,000 miles per hour
If Earth rotated at more than 1,000 miles per hour, day time and night time temperature differences would be too great for life. If we rotated at less than 1,000 miles per hour, the wind would blow at too great a speed for life to exist.
Earth’s Age
If the Earth was younger: Earth would rotate too fast for life. If Earth was older: It would rotate too slowly for life
Earth’s Magnetic Field is extremely delicately balanced.
If Earth’s Magnetic Field was stronger: electromagnetic storms would be too severe. If it was weaker: Our ozone layer would be not be sufficient to protect us from hard solar and stellar radiation.
Thickness of Earth’s crust
If the crust of the Earth was thicker, it would rob the atmosphere of oxygen needed for life. If Earth’s crust was thinner, we would have so many volcanoes and earthquakes that life would be impossible.
The Earth reflects light off of its surface.
If earth reflected more light, we would be experience constant ice ages. If Earth reflected less light off its surface, we would be in a sub tropical hell.
Earth’s asteroid and comet collision rates
If the Earth had more collisions, life could not exist. If Earth had less collisions than we have experienced, our crust would contain too little of certain life-essential elements
Oxygen to nitrogen ratio in atmosphere
The atmosphere of Earth is made up mostly of the gases nitrogen (78%), and oxygen (21%). This perfect balance is what makes the skies their beautiful blue color. If Earth had more Oxygen: it would catch on fire and burn up.. If less Oxygen: No human life on earth.
Carbon dioxide level in atmosphere
If Earth had more carbon Dioxide: we would have a runaway greenhouse effect. If we had less Carbon Dioxide: plants would be unable to grow.
Water vapor quantity in the atmosphere
If we had more water vapor in our atmosphere: runaway greenhouse effect would develop If we had less water vapor, we wouldn’t get enough rain and Earth would be a desert, and everything would die.
Earth’s atmospheric electric discharge rate
If Earth had more electric discharge in our atmosphere, the forest would break out in spontaneous combustion.
Earth’s ozone quantity in atmosphere
If Earth had too much ozone: our surface temperatures would be too low for life; with insufficient UV radiation for life. If there was not enough ozone: surface temperatures would be too high for life; UV radiation would be too intense for life
Earth’s Earthquakes.
If we had any more earthquakes than we have: life would be destroyed; ecosystem would be damaged. If we had less earthquakes: nutrients on ocean floors from river runoff would not be recycled to continents through tectonics; not enough carbon dioxide would be released from carbonate buildup
Volcanic activity
If less volcanoes erupted: There would not be enough carbon dioxide and water vapor returned to the atmosphere; soil mineralization would be insufficient for life advanced life support. If Earth had too many Volcanoes erupting: advanced life would be destroyed; ecosystem would be damaged
Amount of oceans-to-continents ratio
If we had more larger oceans: diversity and complexity of life-forms would be limited. If we had less ocean, No complex life forms. If we had less land, land area would be insufficient for advanced life. If greater land: change would be too radical for advanced life to survive
Distribution of continents
If there were too many continents in the Southern Hemisphere: sea-salt aerosols would be insufficient to stabilize surface temperature and water cycle; increased seasonal differences would limit the available habitats for advanced land life
Earth’s gravitational interaction with the moon
If the Moon had more gravitational pull on the earth, tidal effects on the oceans, atmosphere, and rotational period would destroy all life by massive waives. If the Moon had less gravitational pull on the earth, all weather on earth would change so severly that life could not exist.
Jupiter’s distance from the Earth
If farther away from Earth: Jupiter would be unable to protect Earth from frequent asteroid and comet collisions. If Jupiter was closer to the Earth: Jupiter’s gravity would throw our orbit off and kill everyone on earth.
Our planets orbits around the sun
If the orbits of the planets in our solar system were longer: Earth’s orbit would be radically changed and life could not exist.
The frequency of forest and grass fires
If Earth had more forest fires: smoke and soot would choke out all life. If we had less forest fires: The forest would accumulate growth inhibitors that would make soil unsuitable for food production
Amount of sea-salt
If the seas had more salt: it would cause too rapid of cloud formation over the oceans and would radically disrupt the climate and atmospheric temperature balances. If the seas had less salt: There would not be enough clouds forming; resulting in inadequate water cycle; disrupts atmospheric temperature balances and hence the climate.
These 36 absolute conditions for our Galaxy, Planet, and the conditions on Earth, make is certain that they did not occur by random chance. All of these factors are absolutely necessary to make life possible. It is not scientifically possible that any of these conditions could have “evolved” to make life on earth possible. Each single factor, as well as the totality of all these conditions, is necessary to make human life possible on earth.
The odds that all of these factors happening by chance:
Total Probability = 1:1099
Scientists admit that any probability greater than 10 to the 50th power are IMPOSSIBLE to occur by chance. The conditions that make life possible on Earth, by the laws of probability, indicate that life exists uniquely on earth, by the deliberate act of an intelligence who also continues to control these conditions, to make human life possible.
At some point scientists will report that “life has been discovered” on some distant planet.” Let us remember that travel to any planet at this point, is impossible. If there were a planet just one light year from the earth, it would require a spacecraft that could travel at the speed of light, (186 million miles per second) for one year, in order to reach that planet and verify that it actually has life. The technology to travel at the speed of light will most likely never exist. Many planets in the Universe that are thought to be a part of the equation of life, are billions of light years away.
The search for life on a distant planet has reached a place of desperation for the astronomical and scientific community. If other intelligent beings could be found on any planet, that would negate the Bible’s claim that human beings on earth were uniquely created by God to display His mercy, grace and power. The humanistic, godless society that we live in, is desperate to prove that God does not exist. In reality, every new scientific and astronomical discovery each year, proves that the universe was designed and built by an intelligence and did not occur by chance or evolution.
On February 2, 2012, Fox News published yet another article by the scientific community that promises that life is possible on some other planet. It is disingenuous for this to continue without the facts being stated that the actual conditions necessary for intelligent life, are impossible.
Rob Robinson
The following article by Denise Chow, is from Foxnews.com, entitled:
“New Super Earth Found…”
A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star.
The planet is located in the habitable zone of its host star, which is a narrow circumstellar region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface.
“It’s the Holy Grail of exoplanet research to find a planet around a star orbiting at the right distance so it’s not too close where it would lose all its water and boil away, and not too far where it would all freeze,” Steven Vogt, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told SPACE.com. “It’s right smack in the habitable zone — there’s no question or discussion about it. It’s not on the edge, it’s right in there.”
Vogt is one of the authors of the new study, which was led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution for Science, a private, nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C.
“This planet is the new best candidate to support liquid water and, perhaps, life as we know it,” Anglada-Escudé said in a statement.
An alien super-Earth
The researchers estimate that the planet, called GJ 667Cc, is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, which makes it a so-called super-Earth. It takes roughly 28 days to make one orbital lap around its parent star, which is located a mere 22 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion).
“This is basically our next-door neighbor,” Vogt said. “It’s very nearby. There are only about 100 stars closer to us than this one.”
Interestingly enough, the host star, GJ 667C, is a member of a triple-star system. GJ 667C is an M-class dwarf star that is about a third of the mass of the sun, and while it is faint, it can be seen by ground-based telescopes, Vogt said. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
“The planet is around one star in a triple-star system,” Vogt explained. “The other stars are pretty far away, but they would look pretty nice in the sky.”
The discovery of a planet around GJ 667C came as a surprise to the astronomers, because the entire star system has a different chemical makeup than our sun. The system has much lower abundances of heavy elements (elements heavier than hydrogen and helium), such as iron, carbon and silicon.
“It’s pretty deficient in metals,” Vogt said. “These are the materials out of which planets form — the grains of stuff that coalesce to eventually make up planets — so we shouldn’t have really expected this star to be a likely case for harboring planets.”
The fortuitous discovery could mean that potentially habitable alien worlds could exist in a greater variety of environments than was previously thought possible, the researchers said.
“Statistics tell us we shouldn’t have found something this quickly this soon unless there’s a lot of them out there,” Vogt said. “This tells us there must be an awful lot of these planets out there. It was almost too easy to find, and it happened too quickly.”
The detailed findings of the study will be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
An intriguing star system
Another super-Earth that orbits much closer to GJ 667C was previously detected in 2010, but the finding was never published, Vogt added. This planet, called GJ 667Cb, takes 7.2 days to circle the star but its location makes it far too hot to sustain liquid water on its surface.
“It’s basically glowing cinders, or a well-lit charcoal,” Vogt said. “We know about a lot of these, but they’re thousands of degrees and not places where you could live.”
But, the newly detected GJ 667Cc planet is a much more intriguing candidate, he said.
“When a planet gets bigger than about 10 times the size of the Earth, there’s a runaway process that happens, where it begins to eat up all the gas and ice in the disk that it’s forming out of and swells quickly into something like Uranus, Jupiter or Saturn,” Vogt explained. “When you have a surface and the right temperature, if there’s water around, there’s a good chance that it could be in liquid form. This planet is right in that sweet spot in the habitable zone, so we’ve got the right temperature and the right mass range.”
Preliminary observations also suggest that more planets could exist in this system, including a gas giant planet and another super-Earth that takes about 75 days to circle the star. More research will be needed to confirm these planetary candidates, as well as to glean additional details about the potentially habitable super-Earth, the scientists said.
Finding nearby alien planets
To make their discovery, the researchers used public data from the European Southern Observatory combined with observations from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the new Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph at the Magellan II Telescope in Chile.
Follow-up analyses were also made using a planet-hunting technique that measures the small dips, or wobbles, in a star’s motion caused by the gravitational tug of a planet.
“With the advent of a new generation of instruments, researchers will be able to survey many M dwarf stars for similar planets and eventually look for spectroscopic signatures of life in one of these worlds,” Anglada-Escudé said in a statement. Anglada-Escudé was with the Carnegie Institution for Science when he conducted the research, but has since moved on to the University of Gottingen inGermany.
With the GJ 667C system being relatively nearby, it also opens exciting possibilities for probing potentially habitable alien worlds in the future, Vogt said, which can’t easily be done with the planets that are being found by NASA’s prolific Kepler spacecraft.
“The planets coming out of Kepler are typically thousands of light-years away and we could never send a space probe out there,” Vogt said. “We’ve been explicitly focusing on very nearby stars, because with today’s technology, we could send a robotic probe out there, and within a few hundred years, it could be sending back picture postcards.”
