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Nothing is the absence of anything. Even a vacuum is something. Nothing means No time/space, No gravity, No electromagnetic or nuclear strong/weak force. It's impossible to even image "nothing."
Therein lies our bias. We can't imagine true nothing, so we postulate that time had to exist.
Do you know our sun may have once had a sister star? And the earth may be a second generation planet. The truth is so much more interesting
That's why I love science. It bolsters my faith.
When you see how everything worked out perfectly for our solar system and we see no other systems like ours, I can see how people’s instincts would lead them to believe in divine intervention but then as a scientist we see that we won’t always be in the sweet spot. Mars may have harbored life before us. And there may be living organisms in Europa.
And we really don’t know enough about other solar systems to be able to say. It may be life eventually pops up around most stars. Maybe 5 billion years ago and maybe 5 billion in the future.
I just don’t assume a god did anything. I’d rather look for how something was done naturally
I don't really have an opinion about life elsewhere in the universe, but yes, when I see the astronomical odds against even a hemoglobin molecule randomly assembling itself, it does strengthen my faith.
Well I don't know about "random" assembly but I do know when the conditions are right life takes hold.
When a star blows up it spews all the elements needed into the universe. This is how our solar system came to be.
Elements Of Life Discovered Everywhere In The Milky Way
Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, meets not one but two of the critical requirements for life, scientists say.
the ocean regularly receives influxes of the energy required for life via chaotic processes near the moon's surface.
These dynamic lakes, which melt and refreeze over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years, lie beneath as much as 50 percent of Europa's surface
Europa's liquid water ocean "meets one of the critical requirements for life," Hoehler said, noting that its ocean chemistry is believed to be suitable for sustaining living things. "And what you're hearing about today from Britney bears on a second crucial requirement, and that is the requirement for energy."
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genesis of life on Earth is thought to have required some sort of injection of energy into the ocean perhaps from a lightning strike. And during the 3.8 billion years since then, life's existence has depended on the continuous influx of energy from the sun.
Europan life isn't a done deal just yet, though. Water and energy aren't the only
ingredients on the checklist for life , and scientists aren't sure whether Europa has the others, such as the necessary organic chemicals.
What would life on Europa do for your faith? Why?