God’s creation model for life is the “Goldilocks Zone.”
We have listened to what “Proverbs” tells us about the wisdom that was long before creation. In this essay, we will be made well aware of the appropriateness needed for God to create the Universe with everything in it. God’s preparation for man’s life on Earth is incredible!
The Earth is just one of the millions of planets where “life” is possible. This chorus is increasingly heard as more scientific research and possibilities become known. It’s hard to believe because factual evidence about this is not yet enough. The best examples of planets found so far do not meet the minimum requirements of the Goldilocks Zone for life except for the discovery of a group of 7 Planets shot by the “Nasa Spitzer Space Telescope”! The seven planets move in an elliptical orbit, around a single star similar to our Sun. Three of the planets are secure in the Goldilocks zone and can sustain water and possible life. The latter was announced by NASA on 23 February 2017.
There are powerful Christian and Scientific motives for the endless and costly search for life on our own and other Solar Systems in the pursuit of our quest for knowledge and wisdom to better understand our Almighty God as enshrined in the following verse:
Now we still look in a dim mirror and see a mysterious image,
but someday we will see everything as it is.
Now I only partially know,
But someday, I will fully know as God fully knows me.
1 Corinthians 12.
Life is not unique to Earth.
There are groups and religious institutions that believe that “life” is unique to the Earth and that it makes our planet special and that it implies a Creator and if life came naturally or spontaneously then it does not imply a Creator, and then we can expect to find life on many other planets in the whole Universe.
It is not true and belongs and will only confirm the discovery of life in our own and other solar systems that God is Almighty! In any case, we do not believe that life arose spontaneously, and we should never give up our Faith if another living entity discovered.
“God has created and built applications into every living being’s life cycle to ensure that His Creations are commissioned to reproduce and multiply!”
The above assignment is not a spontaneous or natural origin of life! The command is probably also applicable or all beings throughout the Cosmos.
The question is, how are we going to handle such a situation, and what kind of life will it be? Is there evidence in the Bible for life beyond our solar system? Yes I think there is and we will discuss it later in the book
Hope to find life within our solar system has so far been unsuccessful, but it has not diminished the zeal for the quest for survival. The Kepler telescope was launched at a very high cost in 2009 by NASA to monitor 140,000 stars for evidence of planets in golden bell zones. The results are amazing: more than 3500 exoplanet candidates identified in Kepler’s limited survey. Kepler was able to track only a small group of planets, which were at the right distances from their target stars. However, researchers were able, with the limited information available to them, to assume the number of planets in our Milky Way and estimated that there are as many as 100 billion planets.
New telescopes like the “William Webb” and others will give us a better glimpse of the skies in the future.
Our solar system has already shown that there is no place like the Earth and conditions on other planets in our solar system are not very environmentally friendly. But in spite of the circumstances, it is planned to send a one-way space mission to Mars soon. Plans are also in place to visit and settle Moon Stations on the Moon before the one-way space mission to Mars. The space flights and stations on the Moon and Mars is a golden opportunity to introduce A I Robotic Personnel to replace humans.
There are indeed many exciting times before in spite of all the dangers and limitations!
How will we ever get to other galaxies if we cannot even bridge the considerable distances to other galaxies? We can’t also fly as fast as light or can we? Are there other ways to bridge the gap? Why did God place planets around the Sun in different galaxies? Is the answer to the last question perhaps;
“Because God wants us to know the circumstances on the planets so we can prepare ourselves for possible trips to other solar systems if we can overcome the circumstances that prevent us from travelling!”
Pay attention to the research direction that NASA has undertaken in recent years that relate to Earth and its atmospheric and other cycles needed for the existence of life and to better protect people, even against meteorites. Here are some NASA projects;
• Earth Observing Systems
• Launch Program
• Global Precipitation Management
• Shuttle Recovery Topography
Over the past few years, scientists have been researching organisms that succeed survive in extreme environments on Earth, as in the high
• temperatures of hydrothermal gutters on the seabed,
• under high pressure in the rocks
• in the deep cold and dark waters of lakes See photo: The animal was found eight kilometres under the sea in the “Marianna Gutter” and buried under the Antarctic ice.
This research is part of the projects to determine if there can be life in our solar system such as on Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and its moons, where liquid water may be far below their surface.
Liquid water is an essential ingredient for life.
The basic needs of animal life are almost endless. It does not mean that extremophilic organisms are not lesser creations of God, and it will surpass your mind to experience how complex they are in their own right! They are specially designed to enable them to survive in hostile circumstances that would kill any other form of life on Earth.
What should the circumstances on planets be for life to survive?
• The Planet must be the right distance from its Sun. (not too hot, not too cold.)
• The need for liquid water for life. Astronomers have defined habitable zones around exoplanet stars. The habitable zone is the narrow area in space around a star where liquid water is possible on the surface of the planet. A planet orbiting too close to its Sun will be too hot for liquid water. But if a world is too far from its Sun, water will be frozen. Venus is close to the Sun and therefore too hot for liquid water. Mars is too far away from the Sun, so its water is mostly frozen. The Earth is in the middle of the habitable zone of the Sun.
• The right mass is needed to maintain the right atmosphere! The moon is in the correct region, just like Earth but is sterile. The problem is that the moon has too little mass, and therefore not enough gravity, to hold any significant atmosphere. Liquid water cannot exist in the vacuum of space, as on the moon’s surface. When a planet is too large, the atmospheric composition is poisonous and consists of volatile gases like Jupiter to support a planet or moon, it must have the right mass.
• The exact chemical composition. The moon does not have all the necessary elements found on Earth.
• Unstable orbits of planets around the Sun and its axis cause varying temperatures and seasons.
• Planets must rotate around their axis. No rotation, or as it known in science, causes the “Planet to be to close on its Sun” causing the “Cooking-of-Fries syndrome”. The planet always has a night on half of its surface on the same side, and it can create patterns that are entirely different from Earth. Strong winds can blow from day to night, with extreme temperatures
The Creation Model does not determine that the Earth can sustain life alone. We believe that life did not originate naturally or spontaneously but exists where God has chosen to create it, and it can be elsewhere in heaven. God made the Earth special for a man to live on, even though it is only temporary. We and the planet we live on are divine and incredible creations that make us unique. God has done endlessly with the nature of man, the Earth, all the plants and animals to make it complete and self-sustaining. The more we examine and research heaven and Earth, the more we realise the Almighty Greatness of God!
In the underlying Bible verse from Isaiah 45:18, God says “He made Heaven and Earth to be inhabited and that He did not do it empty!”
Here God himself answers the question of whether we are alone in the Cosmos.
So says the Lord,
He who made heaven, He is God
that formed and created the Earth.
He settled it. He didn’t do it to be empty,
but to be inhabited.
(Gen. 1; Isaiah 45:18).
God created life on other planets concern some of our brothers about complex questions regarding the Fall and the Curse.
A wonderful future awaits.
I know for sure that our present suffering cannot be to the glory with which God is going to surprise us.
Creation longs for that day when God opens his children to introduce the masterplan of His creation of the New Heaven.
For against His will, all creation is caught up in a senseless cycle of degradation because of God’s punishment for the first people’s disobedience. All creation looks forward to the day when it will also be freed from the slave service to this mortality and partake of the glorious freedom of God’s children.
After all, we know that all creation is still groaning like someone with birth pains.
What’s more, we who have received the Spirit as a foretaste and guarantee of our future glory also cry within us in our longing for deliverance from our corruptible bodies. Now that God redeemed us, we look forward to our future glory. Because if you already have something, you no longer have to look forward to it. But if you don’t have it yet, you look forward eagerly and persistently.
The Spirit of God also helps us in our ineptness. After all, we don’t know what and how we should pray. But the Spirit Himself takes up our prayer needs before God with sighs that cannot express in human language. This God, who understands the depths of each heart, knows what the Spirit has in mind — that He intercedes for the believers in harmony with God’s will. And we know that God works together for the good of those who love Him, those who called according to His purpose for their lives. God already knew them in advance, and He appointed them to become like His Son. In this way, Christ Jesus will be the eldest son, surrounded by many brothers and sisters.
He also called those whom He appointed in advance. And those whom He called He also acquitted. And those whom he has ransomed, he gave them to glory.
Romans 8:22
Romans 8:22 tells us that all of Cosmos is suffering from the Fall and the Curse, Does Adam and Eve’s sin also relate to beings living on other planets? Did God create living creatures on other planets? If they have souls, do they need salvation? Are they also subject to God’s gracious salvation through the death of His Son, Jesus Christ?
The answers to all the questions are that we do not know! And because we do not know it does not mean that we should not suffer an “exploratory” life and that we should go and hide until God comes to fetch us. I don’t think that’s what God wants us to do.
So far, the search for life on other planets has agreed with the Creation Model, but it contradicted the evolutionary worldview.
Was Creation A One-off Event or Multiple?
It may now be necessary that we look again at the “One Time Event” or the so-called term
“Singularity” and its definitions.
The standard definition of “Singularity” is a noun that refers to a strange, unique, remarkable, one-off or unusual event such as the Big Bang, after which the entire Universe, with all its galaxies, was created in seconds! There is no Scientific evidence for a “One-time Creation Event”. There are, however, multiple scientific evidence for star explosions such as supernovae that occur commonly in the Universe and have consequences as described in Genesis. Certain events in the Bible will reveal that will shake a man to his foundations and leave us speechless.
For a more specific definition of Singularity, we may consult the Dictionary for the following five definitions
1. The condition of single fold, bright, peculiar or unusual event
2. A point where all parallel lines meet
3. a point where a particular variable reaches an unlimited or infinite value
4. (math) the amount or range of values of a function for which a derivative value does not exist
5. (physics) a point or region in space-time in which gravitational forces cause matter to reach an infinite density associated with high-density black holes.
Mattheus Frederik
