Perceptions #200127

"NO ACCIDENT"

by Jerry Hodge

Here are some hard facts about our universe:

• Raise or lower the universe's rate of expansion by even one part in a million and it would have ruled out the possibility of life.

• If the ratio of carbon to oxygen had been slightly different than it is, none of us would have been here to breathe the air.

• If the average distance between the stars were any greater, planets like the earth would not have been formed; any smaller the planetary orbits necessary for life would not have occurred.

• Change the tilt of the axis slightly in one direction, and we would freeze. Change it in the other direction and we would burn up.

• Suppose the earth had been a little closer or further from the sun or just a bit larger or smaller, or it is rotated at a speed any different from the one we're spinning at right now. Given any of these changes, the resulting temperature variations would be completely fatal.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? (Psalm 8:3-4)

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