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Recent planetary simulations have provided more evidence of fine-tuning in the solar system. Gas giants form faster than rocky planets like Earth, so the presence of a Jupiter-type planet affects the development of the rest of the planetary system. By simulating the growth of rocky planets with “Jupiters” of different sizes, distances from parent stars, and eccentricities, a Colorado astrophysicist has shown the difficulty of forming a sufficiently large planet with adequate water for the presence of life. If the gas giant forms inside a distance 3.5 times greater than the Earth-sun distance, no watery earthlike planets form—assuming the gas giant has a nearly circular orbit. For more eccentric orbits, no watery planets form. The solar system shows fine-tuning in having a gas giant with a circular orbit and a just-right distance from the Sun to permit Earth’s formation and provide adequate protection from cometary and asteroidal bombardment. Such fine-tuning is a natural part of RTB’s cosmic creation model, in which a supernatural Creator carefully crafted the solar system to support advanced life—especially humans.
Sean N. Raymond, “The Search for Other Earths: Limits on the Giant Planet Orbits That Allow Habitable Terrestrial Planets to Form,” Astrophysical Journal Letters 643 (2006): L131-34.
Preliminary results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have stirred great excitement among physicists.1 Radiometers on board the satellite are sending NASA researchers...
Characters in sci-fi movies and novels routinely encounter alien life somewhere in the universe. The crew of the USS Enterprise deals with Klingons, Q,...
A team of international scientists has helped establish the reliability of an important cosmological probe that also supports the validity of RTB’s cosmic creation...
