Big Bang Baloney

Evidence of Creation...

Between 1921 and 1926, our understanding of the universe changed. Hubble used a powerful telescope to look at the universe. Until then, we had thought the Milky Way was the only galaxy.

But, Hubble saw something amazing...

The Milky Way galaxy, encompassing about 100 billion stars was only one of many galaxies in the visible universe.

The sheer quantity of galaxies we could see was incredible.  Could each contain about 100 billion stars (suns) like the Milky Way? Scientists believed that they probably did. At first, seeing so many galaxies out there convinced evolutionary scientists that our Earth must be a common planet. Robert Jastrow voiced this viewpoint when he said:

"The universe is populated by innumerable Earths and perhaps, innumerable forms of life."

Evolution teaches that all the elements needed for life on our planet came into being by chance – by some stellar lottery. If Earth is common, and similar planets can be found throughout space, the idea that we evolved is easier to swallow. In fact, in order to prove that Earth evolved, evolutionists need the Earth to be common - not unique in the whole of the universe. But is this so? 

Are carbon-based life-form planets rare or common in the universe? After all, the universe is a huge place... To answer this question, we must first identify the necessary factors that are required in order for a planet be habitable for carbon-based life-forms.

Extensive research has been done by NASA and other scientists to determine what it takes to have complex life on a planet.

They have come up with a list of about 20 critical factors. We don’t have time to address them all, but we will look at 10 compelling factors required to support our fragile life on Earth.

FACTOR #1: Liquid Water

In order for a planet to sustain life, it must have liquid water. This is the first factor scientists list as needed on our planet for us to survive.  Why is water so essential?

Water can dissolve and transport the chemical nutrients needed in carbon-based life-forms. In addition, water absorbs heat from the sun which is critical to regulating the surface of the Earth’s temperature.

Interestingly enough, our Earth has exactly the right amount of water to keep our planet healthy. If we had too many continents and not enough sea, our climate would be thrown off balance enough to make our planet an unhappy place, maybe even an unlivable place.

FACTOR #2: The Goldilocks Zone

A planet's distance from the sun is critical. There is an orbital region around the sun that NASA scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone". This is the narrow orbital band where it is not too hot and not too cold. In fact, only in this narrow band are the temperatures are just right to have liquid water on the planet.

If a planet has water, but is too far from the sun, the water freezes. If the planet is too close to the sun, the water boils and evaporates away. So the habitable Goldilocks Zone is relatively narrow.

Remarkably, to those who wish to believe our Earth evolved by chance, we are positioned perfectly in the habitable zone of our solar system.

As the above picture shows, the location of a solar system’s habitable zone changes depending on how large or small its sun happens to be.

If the Earth were just 5% closer to our sun than it is, our planet would be a lot like Venus. A runaway greenhouse effect would take place. Temperatures would reach about 900 degrees Fahrenheit. 

What if the Earth were 20% farther from the sun than it is? If it were 20% farther away from the sun, carbon dioxide clouds would form in Earth's upper atmosphere. This would create on Earth the same sterile environment as we find on Mars. Mars has ice (non-liquid water), but water itself is not enough for a planet to be hospitable to Earth's complexity of life.

As it turns out, Earth is in just the right place in our solar system...

FACTOR #3: A Terrestrial Planet

In order to be habitable to Earth's life-forms, our planet also needs to be "terrestrial" (a rocky planet). Comparatively, Earth has a paper-thin crust. If the crust of Earth were significantly thicker, plate tectonics (a process which recycles the Earth’s crust) could not happen.

Our Earth's crust is broken into more than a dozen tectonic plates. Like a great moving conveyor belt, this tectonic action is continually recycling the Earth’s materials. Because of this action, the chemicals and minerals needed to support carbon-based life are continually being provided. In other words, if it wasn’t for the fact that our planet has plate tectonics continually renewing vital minerals and chemicals, we would eventually run out of the things needed to support life on this planet. Thus, plate tectonics is a vital part of keeping us all alive.

FACTOR #4: Magnetic Fields

Deep within our planet's interior, the movement of liquid iron (in the magma) generates magnetic fields around the Earth. This protective magnetic field is essential to complex life as we have it on Earth. Without it, we would quickly become as barren of life as Mars.

This is because of the sun’s powerful solar wind. Our magnetic field protects us from the harmful effects of the sun’s solar wind. These solar winds harmlessly sweep past our planet, because of the protective shield created by our Earth’s magnetic fields.

FACTOR #5: Earth's Mass

Have you ever wondered what would happen to life on Earth if our planet's mass were smaller? Probably not! We are so blessed to have all the factors required for habitable life that we don't even think about them. But, if Earth's mass were smaller our magnetic field would be weaker, allowing the sun to strip away our Earth's atmosphere. Just this factor alone would be enough to make Earth as barren as Mars.

FACTOR #6: Our Oxygen/Nitrogen Atmosphere

From space, Earth's atmosphere seems to glow like a thin, blue ribbon of light. It is actually less than 1% of the planet’s diameter. 

Our atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% carbon dioxide. This is the perfect mix to provide us with a temperate climate, protection from the sun’s radiation, and it is the correct combination of gases necessary for liquid water and complex carbon-based life. Once again, our Earth has exactly what it needs to support the life here. Our atmosphere is absolutely perfect for our needs.

FACTOR #7: A Large Moon

Compared with the other planets which we can observe in space, our Earth (for it’s size) has a large moon. Because of it’s size, the moon generates a powerful gravitational pull on the Earth, which stabilizes the Earth’s rotation on its axis. Our moon is one quarter of the size of the Earth. Because of the moon’s size, it keeps the Earth tilted at a constant 23.5° angle. This gives us relatively mild seasonal changes. It is one main reason, why Earth is the only planet in our solar system with mild enough climates to sustain life.

FACTOR #8: The Type of Star We Orbit

We orbit a sun called a "spectral type G2 dwarf star". And this is the perfect kind of star for our sun to be - to suit our needs.

The ‘G2’ classification of our Sun indicates it has a surface temperature of approximately 10,000° Fahrenheit (5,500° Calvin), about the middle of the temperature scale for stars, giving it a white color. Yet, this happens to be the perfect temperature for Earth’s sun to be.

Big as it is, our sun is actually small for a star. Betelgeuse (located in the shoulder of Orion) is an M2Ib red supergiant and physically one of the largest stars known. If Betelgeuse took the place of our Sun its outer surface would extend between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter. 

Antares (Alpha Scorpii) is also a red supergiant and extremely large – about 700 times the diameter of our Sun and one of the brightest stars in the heavens. Yet, none of these star sizes would work for Earth. Isn’t it amazing that our sun happens to be exactly the right size to suit our needs?

Not only are the size of our sun and our distance from it vital factors to life on Earth, but also our orbiting path around the sun is critical. Scientists have found that most orbiting bodies in space orbit in an elliptical path. Notably, our Earth does not orbit in the usual elliptical path. The distance between the earth and the sun varies less than 0.33% ! Earth's orbit is almost circular. Why is that important ? It minimizes temperature change as the earth revolves around the sun.

Not only does earth have a circular orbit, but many of the planets in our solar system also have circular orbits. The orbit of Venus is CIRCULAR - this is very important because Venus' size is like earth's and an eccentric orbit (or elliptical shaped orbit) would destabilize EARTH's orbit! The orbit of all the Giant Planets are circular - again, this is very important because their gravitational forces are huge and an eccentric orbit would destabilize Earth's orbit. What's the chance of so many planets having near-circular orbits in our solar system by accident? 

Consider also, the size of our sun and our position near it. If the sun were less massive, like 90% of the stars in our galaxy, the habitable zone would be smaller. To remain within its boundaries, the Earth would have to be positioned closer to its star. 

Our sun is exactly the right size to have a perfect habitable zone.If our sun were smaller than it is, the habitable zone that our planet would have to orbit in would be much closer to the sun. If this were so, the increased gravity from our closeness to the sun, would lock our Earth’s rotation, keeping us from turning as we orbit around the sun.  Naturally, this would mean that one side of our planet would always be in daytime and the other side of the planet would always be in night time.  

This would limit plant life to one side of Earth.  In fact, animal life would be limited to one side of Earth as well. But, this isn’t the most serious problem. No longer rotating, one side of the Earth would continually face the sun giving it increased radiation from solar flares. The other side would be dark, in a state of continual cold and ice. Complex life could not long tolerate these drastic extremes. 

And so, amazingly we find that our sun just happens to be exactly the right size to give earth a perfect habitable zone.

FACTOR #9: Our Location in Our Galaxy

Scientists have now discovered that not only is our planet in the exact right location in our solar system, orbiting an absolutely perfectly sized sun at exactly the perfect distance, but also, we are in the exact right location in the Milky Way galaxy. If we were closer to the middle of the galaxy, Earth would be in a very dangerous place. Black holes are common, stars go super nova with too great a frequency.  Our fragile life forms would not likely survive long if our planet were positioned nearer the center of the galaxy. 

Not only are we placed in the safest spot for us to be, we are also placed between the spirals, not within a spiral. This means that we get a clear view of the night sky, enabling us to see the constellations and learn. Thus, we find that we are not only placed in the safest place, but also in a place where we will get the best view of the heavens enabling us to learn and scientifically grow.

FACTOR #10: Giant Planet "Guardians"

Another factor needed to support Earth's life is the presence of several gas giant planets in a protective ring orbiting about us. These gas giants protect us from most comet impacts and from large space debris.

The picture above is taken with infrared showing many comets hitting Jupiter at once. The Giant Planet Jupiter (and in a lesser amount, Saturn and Neptune) is shielding Earth from many asteroids/comets by drawing this space debris to itself and away from hitting Earth. Jupiter is in fact "taking the hits" for Earth. 

Evidence of this is the Collision of the comet Shoemaker-Levi 9 with Jupiter in July 1994. The picture at the right shows the impacts on Jupiter from this comet. From images like these, scientists have come to understand that were it not for the presence of the gas giant planets orbiting around us like guardian angels, the fragile life on our planet would have likely been destroyed long ago.

We've only looked at 10 factors necessary for the like of life such as we find on Earth. But when scientists began to compile a list of all the factors needed to support the fragile carbon-based life forms we have on Earth, it was a list of twenty factors! 

When scientists saw this huge list and realized that our little planet just happens to have all these critical factors, some began asking themselves what the odds were that these life-supporting factors all came to be here by chance.

To determine the probability that all these factors could be present on Earth by mere chance (an evolutionary accident), scientists came up with a complex equation...

N x fsg x fgnz x fcr x fsp x fcnz x np x fj x fc x fo x fm x fcp x fmn x fw x ft x fl x fi x fr x flc x flt...

Then, they assigned a conservative 1 in 10 value to each factor deemed necessary for Earth's life, creating the following math equation:

1011 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10

This comes out to one thousandth of one millionth that all these factors are present on Earth by chance evolution!

By comparison, the odds of winning the lottery are 18 million to 1...  At the lowest estimate, there is a one in a trillion chance that the earth would get all 20 factors needed to support our life. If the same odds of winning were applied to the lottery, no one would ever win. And yet, the supposed scientific theory of evolution states that Earth has done just that. 

Many believe that by random chance we possess all 20 vital factors which allow for carbon-based life to exist here. What does all this mean? For one thing, the idea that there are numerous planets just like Earth throughout the Milky Way galaxy is totally blown out of the water. Scientists admit that there are not likely to be any other planet here like ours for there just aren’t enough stars in the galaxy to handle those odds!  This can only mean one thing – the earth is a special place – unique. And that it was put here by design, rather than by accident.

Two, former evolutionist scientists, considering all this, were converted to believing in the Creator. They wrote about it all in their book, The Privileged Planet (shown below).

What a wonderful God we have! And seeing all His tender watch-care over us, planning for our every need, far beyond out own awareness, gives us a huge reason to trust Him.

Isaiah 26:3  "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in Yahweh for ever: for in the Yahweh JEHOVAH is everlasting strength." 

Are you loving God's Star Messages? Now you can go deeper with God's Amazing Star Secrets!

Get Shauna Manfredine's book! 

For more information about the Mazzaroth (God's constellation tapestry) and His Messages in the 48 original constellations, request your own copy of Shauna Manfredine's book, God's Amazing Star Secret (book trailer).

Turn your Church or Venue into a Planetarium for a Night (or Weekend)! Now you can share God's Amazing Star Secrets with your whole family, church, or gathering! Request Shauna Manfredine to give her inspiring and well-researched, planetarium-style God's Amazing Star Secrets presentation. 

In her presentation(s), Shauna shows the meaning of Psalm 19:1-4 and the original names of the stars based upon earth's first recorded language(s). She shows archaeological evidence of the original constellations and the amazing connection between the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 primary constellations. And she explains the Plan of Redemption in the original star and constellation names. More information...