Scientists in recent
years have accumulated evidence showing that specific features in
creation—Earth, in particular—must be extremely fine-tuned in order to
support life.
One obvious example is
the Earth’s distance from the sun. It is just right to keep
temperatures here hospitable—somewhere between negative 30 degrees and
120 degrees Fahrenheit. If we were further away, we would freeze; if we
were closer to the sun, we would roast.
Each year, we recognize
more of these finely tuned features that allow for life here. In 1988,
Dr. Hugh Ross’s team of astronomy researchers counted 15 features that
had to be just so for any life to survive. By 1991, they had counted two more. By 1995, they had come to see yet nine more
features that had to be exactly right. By 1998, the total number had
risen to 34 features. Any significant change in any one of these
conditions, and none of us would be here.
Of course, each of these features exponentially increases the improbability that life just happened to come about here without deliberate design. It makes it that much less likely that all of this evolved by chance. MORE>>>>>>