On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:36 AM, PT <cft...@gmail.com> wrote: > No. I don't think I have it backwards. I am not saying that it's > amazing that everything is tailor made for us. I am saying that it is > amazing that there is life at all. If anything in that list didn't > exist, or things didn't happen the exact way they did in the right > order, then not only would we not be here, but it is likely that > nothing would be here. Earth would be just another lifeless > could-have-been, orbiting the Sun right along with Mars.
This could be true, or life may have happened anyway. Perhaps it would be more resistant to radiation from the sun for example. On other star systems and other planets, there is also the possibility that life would not be carbon based - and we have even less idea what those "rules for life" are. We don't even know why life suddenly appeared (unless it was the magic man in the sky). Many scientists propose that it could have been carried across the cosmos on a comet or other space bound object. Or, considering that our sun is a Population I star (http://bit.ly/NuS9Wx - not a first generation), it could have come from a location much closer to home. What if life on earth originated in a pervious incarnation of our solar system or a combination of multiple other, older solar systems. These possibilities are very interesting to me... -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351887 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
