It has always been told that everything about this Universe is perfect. A bit too perfect, especially when you consider Earth. I mean, look at how things came together to support life. It's just unbelievable to think of how many factors affect the possibility of life on earth.
People talk about water, but that's not even touching the surface. Water has been discovered on so many other planets and asteroids, so why aren't they supporting life? There's more to Earth than just water. The Sun for example is strangely just about the right size (at this moment) and giving off just about the right amount of heat and light for a planet like Earth, placed at just about the right distance to function. But again, that's not it. We have an atmosphere. The Sun despite doing everything right for us has one bad effect - Solar Winds. Winds strong enough to blow away our atmosphere. So after having all the conditions good for life, our atmosphere could've been blown away leading to a lifeless planet that was otherwise perfect. It's mostly thanks to that swirling mass of molten metal buried deep underground that's actually saving us. The Earth's Magnetic Field is present due to this swirling mass of metal and is the reason why our atmosphere doesn't get blown off, and also why most space rocks entering the Earth's atmosphere get burned up before crashing on our heads.
I'm sure there are more "perfections" that have caused Earth to be capable of sustaining life. But of course, this perfection isn't going to last forever. There could be a day when the Earth's Magnetic Field starts fading away and soon our planet is no different from Mars, airless, dry and lifeless. There WILL be a day when the Sun loses its energy and bulges to a size enough to consume the Earth. There could be a day when a blast of cosmic energy from a black hole vaporizes us before we could spell the word 'Death'. And there could be many more of such likely events that will trigger the End of the World.
So to think that the Earth is perfect, I feel is a mistake. The Earth's capability to sustain life is nothing more than a byproduct of the Universe's random and chaotic nature. In my opinion, Life itself is quite random. We may not yet have enough knowledge about how Life was created but I'm hoping we will, because I still find it hard to believe there is a Supernatual being that has created us, who happens to be very similar looking to Humans (according to our own conclusions). I still haven't felt we are that special. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions and millions of years and were eventually killed away, we haven't dominated the Earth for even a fraction of that time, why can't we assume that the Supernatural being actually resembled an ancient pre-historic creature and created them to exist for millions of years? To me Nature is not something that can be tamed or controlled. Nature simply evolves into complexity, but when things get too complex, Nature simply hits the Reset button.
Every beautiful thing that happens on Earth is credited to the Gods - Seasons, Monsoon Rains, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, and many many more. Also every bad thing that happens to us is again credited to the Gods. The Gods were angry so they sent down these destructive Tsunamis, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Meteoroids, etc. But sadly I see everything as a phenomenon caused again by the randomness of the universe itself. Some things are hard to predict because they are caused by Nature itself. It is how I think Nature decides to reset itself. When warm moist air meets cold air, there will be a reaction and if your house happens to be under that reaction, the Gods are angry on you? How does that explain anything?
The biggest mistake we have made is to assume that we are perfect. We've been this arrogant ever since we started recording things we observed. It was universally accepted that the Earth was flat, and that we were in the center of the Universe, and everything else revolved around us. What arrogance! Not only did the Earth turn out to be round, we are no where near the center of the solar system, the only Natural thing that revolves around us is the moon, and the solar system is nowhere near the center of the Milky Way, and the Milky way is not the center of the Universe. So how did we think we were so special? The only brilliant part about this whole thing is, we learned all this ourselves! The farther we could see, the more insignificant we became.
And in all this insignificance a lot of us still believe we are special. We think Earth is special. We were given brains and suddenly Humans became special. But we didn't stop there. Humans with a certain skin color were more special. Humans of a certain gender were more special. Humans that belonged to a certain religion were more special. Humans that belonged to a certain sect within that religion were even more special. Thinking of all this, I actually wish that there really is someone up there who is laughing at the way we treat ourselves and everything/everyone else that are not like us.
We are described as Social Animals. We we are nothing more than Political Animals. "Another person's loss is my gain." Really forward thinking there. If Earth really had a character and a soul, Humans should've rightly been made extinct by now. But maybe the Earth is more patient, or maybe we haven't yet reached the height of our stupidity yet. Oh my, are we going to be worse than this? It really scares me to think that Earth is actually waiting for Humans to reach such a low point that we are going to be the cause for our own destruction. And then, the Earth will breathe again, sweeping away the filth and making way for a better species. So it will be Us who would trigger the End of the World, the Universe can just wait and watch as we all fall apart.
People talk about water, but that's not even touching the surface. Water has been discovered on so many other planets and asteroids, so why aren't they supporting life? There's more to Earth than just water. The Sun for example is strangely just about the right size (at this moment) and giving off just about the right amount of heat and light for a planet like Earth, placed at just about the right distance to function. But again, that's not it. We have an atmosphere. The Sun despite doing everything right for us has one bad effect - Solar Winds. Winds strong enough to blow away our atmosphere. So after having all the conditions good for life, our atmosphere could've been blown away leading to a lifeless planet that was otherwise perfect. It's mostly thanks to that swirling mass of molten metal buried deep underground that's actually saving us. The Earth's Magnetic Field is present due to this swirling mass of metal and is the reason why our atmosphere doesn't get blown off, and also why most space rocks entering the Earth's atmosphere get burned up before crashing on our heads.
I'm sure there are more "perfections" that have caused Earth to be capable of sustaining life. But of course, this perfection isn't going to last forever. There could be a day when the Earth's Magnetic Field starts fading away and soon our planet is no different from Mars, airless, dry and lifeless. There WILL be a day when the Sun loses its energy and bulges to a size enough to consume the Earth. There could be a day when a blast of cosmic energy from a black hole vaporizes us before we could spell the word 'Death'. And there could be many more of such likely events that will trigger the End of the World.
So to think that the Earth is perfect, I feel is a mistake. The Earth's capability to sustain life is nothing more than a byproduct of the Universe's random and chaotic nature. In my opinion, Life itself is quite random. We may not yet have enough knowledge about how Life was created but I'm hoping we will, because I still find it hard to believe there is a Supernatual being that has created us, who happens to be very similar looking to Humans (according to our own conclusions). I still haven't felt we are that special. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions and millions of years and were eventually killed away, we haven't dominated the Earth for even a fraction of that time, why can't we assume that the Supernatural being actually resembled an ancient pre-historic creature and created them to exist for millions of years? To me Nature is not something that can be tamed or controlled. Nature simply evolves into complexity, but when things get too complex, Nature simply hits the Reset button.
Every beautiful thing that happens on Earth is credited to the Gods - Seasons, Monsoon Rains, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, and many many more. Also every bad thing that happens to us is again credited to the Gods. The Gods were angry so they sent down these destructive Tsunamis, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Meteoroids, etc. But sadly I see everything as a phenomenon caused again by the randomness of the universe itself. Some things are hard to predict because they are caused by Nature itself. It is how I think Nature decides to reset itself. When warm moist air meets cold air, there will be a reaction and if your house happens to be under that reaction, the Gods are angry on you? How does that explain anything?
The biggest mistake we have made is to assume that we are perfect. We've been this arrogant ever since we started recording things we observed. It was universally accepted that the Earth was flat, and that we were in the center of the Universe, and everything else revolved around us. What arrogance! Not only did the Earth turn out to be round, we are no where near the center of the solar system, the only Natural thing that revolves around us is the moon, and the solar system is nowhere near the center of the Milky Way, and the Milky way is not the center of the Universe. So how did we think we were so special? The only brilliant part about this whole thing is, we learned all this ourselves! The farther we could see, the more insignificant we became.
And in all this insignificance a lot of us still believe we are special. We think Earth is special. We were given brains and suddenly Humans became special. But we didn't stop there. Humans with a certain skin color were more special. Humans of a certain gender were more special. Humans that belonged to a certain religion were more special. Humans that belonged to a certain sect within that religion were even more special. Thinking of all this, I actually wish that there really is someone up there who is laughing at the way we treat ourselves and everything/everyone else that are not like us.
We are described as Social Animals. We we are nothing more than Political Animals. "Another person's loss is my gain." Really forward thinking there. If Earth really had a character and a soul, Humans should've rightly been made extinct by now. But maybe the Earth is more patient, or maybe we haven't yet reached the height of our stupidity yet. Oh my, are we going to be worse than this? It really scares me to think that Earth is actually waiting for Humans to reach such a low point that we are going to be the cause for our own destruction. And then, the Earth will breathe again, sweeping away the filth and making way for a better species. So it will be Us who would trigger the End of the World, the Universe can just wait and watch as we all fall apart.
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