It is always interesting to contemplate how life came to be. The deterministic or macro-evolutionary view is that the universe is a giant crap table and the number for life is bound to come up sometime. The Drake equation is essentially that, out of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe, 1,000,000,000 have the right combination of planets, a planet the right distance from sun, chemicals on that planet, and other characteristics to produce life, life must happen. Really? Where can you get your money back if you’re wrong?
Worse, can those long odds result in intelligent life that can see more than its next meal or have diversity of species with numerous chromosomal differences and numbers? Unlikely is the best answer, if not impossible.
For instance, galaxies collide, star systems intersect, debris is constantly falling out of the sky and hitting things. What if it hits the right spot at the wrong time? Over billions of years, the odds of the continuance of life is extremely small. When Krakatoa exploded in 1883, we came close to losing all complex life on Earth because of the reduction of vital chemicals in the atmosphere. True Global Cooling. It destroyed the cattle industry on the American Great Plains among other negative effects, the second year in the Nineteenth Century without a summer. What happens if Krakatoa goes off billions of years ago instead and more fiercely?
Or the sun’s solar cycle gets a little too frisky? No life on Earth. Or the magnetic field reverses polarity, which it does regularly, at the wrong time and all life gets Xrayed with solar radiation? We’re all toast. Very burnt toast.
Those odds for life keep getting smaller, not to mention that after the Big Bang, a millisecond in the development of the universe separated the ability to have life at all and no life n the universe.
Aren’t we all glad there is a Heavenly Father who wants his children to have a place to live in mortality? That beats the odds all hollow.
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