What if the components of life existed in every corner of the Milky Way Nebula before they settled into being planets orbiting Sol? I think that potential is more viable in the understandings of chaos. Our solar system within the Milky Way as it exists today is far older than the planet Earth.
Why not expect Earth to be more than this egocentric beginning of life that people like to assign to it's existence. Earth is one of many planets with varied sizes and composition. The four planets closest to Sol experienced their formations differently than the planets on the opposite side of our solar system's asteroid belt. Why would the components of life be limited to Earth?
As our solar system spun out over billions of years the heavier particles closest to the sun became a very different type of planet than those at the outer extremes. It makes sense, doesn't it? Sol has gravity and trapped heavier particles closest to it while the lighter more gaseous particles organized differently opposite the asteroid belt.
Earth's orbit around Sol deteriorates a minuscule amount every year. But, that deterioration is continuous and not on a timed departure. Considering that deterioration only proves Sol has gravity in a very profound way.
Recently we learned comets can transmit sound. That is an atmosphere, not a void. And what is it about the asteroid belt? Is the asteroid belt a region of transition and collision of these different types of particles? A transition so great it partially developed solid rocks while moving toward a more gaseous composition. And what is it with the comets and their consistent orbits? Are the comets caught in a relationship with Sol no differently than Earth? Isn't a comet a comet because of it's tail and that tail being water?
December 17, 2014
Since William Herschel (click here) spotted polar ice caps on Mars in the mid-17th century, astronomers have speculated that life could exist on a planet which seemed so similar to Earth.
But when probes began to beam back images of a barren wasteland in the Sixties and Viking 1 failed to find organic chemicals in 1976, hopes faded.
Now, however, Nasa believes it has found the first hint that life could exist on the Red Planet. It is just possible that unusual clusters of methane might be being produced by biological organisms.
Up to now there have only been tantalizing hints that Mars once had a climate which could support alien life....
Outside our solar system it is estimated there are 88 billion planets (click here) similar to Earth in the habitable zone around their suns.
No one is disproving religion when they explore the possibilities to our planet's reality. There are 103 naturally occurring elements on Earth. There are more elements but they are primarily synthetic elements found during experiments. Why is it the only place 103 naturally occurring elements is Earth? When one stops to realize the enormity of the Milky Way Galaxy and the potential for more galaxies; the simplicity of thinking Earth's life is unique becomes more and more estranged from a far different truth.
Our solar system is a very small place in the corner of the Milky Way, yet there is life on Earth because of it's exact place orbiting Sol. Is life on Earth actually that unique to exclude it from every other corner of any galaxy anywhere? I personally don't think so, but, that reality still leaves room for god as well. To be so arrogant as to think science can disprove god is more than any scientist should consider. The reality of any form of life is expressed differently for each species. There are an enormous number of species still unknown to human study. There are species facing extinction due to the Sixth Extinction. But, to think bibles written by men or women limited in their understandings of the times they lived only becomes as silly as the next discovery of unknown facts about our place in this universe.
Science is important. Discoveries are important. But, to place the belief in god outside the realm of science is complete foolishness considering the diligence needed in the most minor of human discovery.
