ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - 7

                                           ONE HEARTBEAT      AWAY       7

   Mark Cahill's book


Consider some of the amazing aspects of design that are  evident in our solar system :

1.  The earth is positioned at just the 
      right distance from the sun, so that
      we receive exactly the proper 
      amount of heat to support life. The
      other planets of our solar system
      are either too close to the sun (too
      hot) or else too far (too cold) to
      sustain life.

2.  Any appreciable change in the rate
     of rotation of the earth would make 
     life impossible. For example if the 
     earth were to rotate at 1/10th its 
     present rate, all plant life would  
     either be burned to a crisp during 
     the day or frozen at night.

3.  Temperature variations are kept 
      within  reasonable limits due to the 
      nearly circular orbit of the earth
      around the sun.

4.  The moon revolves around the  
      earth at a distance of about  
      240,000 miles, causing harmless
     tides on the earth. If the moon 
     were located 1/5th of this distance 
     away, the continents would be 
      completely submerged twice a day!

5.  The thickness of the earth's crust 
     and the depth of  the oceans appear
     to be carefully designed. Increases in 
      thickness or depth of only a few feet
      would so drastically alter the 
      absorbtion of  free oxygen and 
      carbon dioxide that plant and animal
       life could not exist.

6.  The earth's axis is tilted 23 degrees 
      from the perpendicular to the plane
      of its orbit. This tilting, combined
      with the earths revolution around 
      the sun, causes our seasons, which
      are absolutely  essential for the
      raising of food supplies.

7.  The earth's atmosphere, (especially 
      the ozone layer) , serves as a 
      protective shield from lethal  solar
      ultraviolet radiation, which would 
      otherwise destroy all life.

8.  The earth's atmosphere also serves
      to protect the earth by burning  up
      approximately twenty million 
      meteors each day, that enter it at
      speeds of about 30 miles per 
      second !  Without this crucial 
      protection, the danger to life would 
      be immense. 

9.  The two primary constituents of the
      earth's atmosphere are nitrogen 
      (78 %) and oxygen (20 %). This
      delicate and crucial ratio is 
      essential to all life forms.

10  The earth's magnetic field provides 
       important protection from harmful
       cosmic radiation.

All this happened just by chance?  I think someone would have to commit intellectual suicide to believe that. 

What does your logic
 say as you consider
 the evidence?  

Even well-known astrophysicist Stephen Hawking concluded: 

"The universe and the laws of physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it, could not exist:  Either  atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form the heavier elements., or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on."

Unlike the gentleman on David Letterman's show, many scientists have been willing to honestly, logically, weigh the evidence and have  determined that blind chance cannot be given credit for creating our  highly ordered universe. Though he remains an evolutionist Hawking admitted, "it would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act  of a God who intended to create beings like us."


next post   18th July