I'm going to again quote famed scientist and recognized genius Richard Feynman where he says, "It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all the atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has.
The stage is too big for the drama.
" This quote implies that there are many planets like ours, and God can't keep track of them all.
In my opinion God could have appointed His angels to keep track of them all, but what if planet Earth is actually unique in the Universe? I believe this to be the case, and current science is tending to confirm this belief.
I would guess that 90 percent or more of U.
S.
citizens, and most of the readers of this article, believe in extraterrestrial life.
After all -- Earth is just a very tiny spec in our vast universe, and there must be other earthlike planets.
However, what if I told you that there is a rational explanation for why we might be alone! I can assure you that what I'm about to tell you won't be presented on the Science Channel, but should be.
The reason is that our current knowledge of the universe is pointing in the direction of God, and the Science Channel will avoid it like the plague.
According to the producers of the Science Channel, History Channel, and others like them, mainstream scientists currently believe that Earth is just one of millions of planets in the Universe that can support life.
In fact Dr.
Frank Drake, from Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), formulated the Drake equation that predicts the number of these planets.
The equation encompassed many variables such as the number of stars that resemble our sun and the percentage of these stars that may have Earth-like planets in habitable zones.
The problem with this equation is that it doesn't account for recent discoveries about the uniqueness of our galaxy, our solar system, and planet Earth.
So regardless of how many trillions of planets that may exist in the universe, I'll take the contrarian view that there are no other earth-like planets -- especially ones that have intelligent life.
If there are, it's because God created them.
Here's my reasoning: In his fascinating book The Case for a Creator, Chicago Tribune columnist Lee Strobel interviews world renowned experts in the fields of cosmology, physics, astronomy, and biochemistry, to determine whether current science is pointing toward or away from God.
As you might suspect the conclusion was that science is overwhelmingly pointing to a creator God.
Strobel's evidence shows scientific information that has emerged over the last 50 years is revealing more and more unexplainable complexity, and that the precision by which this complexity is formed can only be attributed to a master designer.
The possibility for it to have been formed by random acts of nature is so remote that - to quote a passage from Strobel's book, "it would be like throwing a dart from space and hitting a target on Earth that was a trillionth of a trillionth of an inch in diameter.
" In an effort to not plagiarize the wording in Strobel's book, I'll try to summarize what he has presented in my own words, but since his book states the case so well I am compelled use quotes where I cannot do better.
To begin I'll use this quote: "Earth's location, its size, its composition, its structure, its atmosphere, its temperature, its internal dynamics, and its many intricate cycles that are essential for life - the carbon cycle, the oxygen cycle, the nitrogen cycle, the phosphorous cycle, the sulfur cycle, the calcium cycle, the sodium cycle and so on - testify to the degree to which our planet is exquisitely and precariously balanced.
" In my next article I'll describe some things about our galaxy that might amaze you -- stay tuned.