The Perfect Sun: Episode 47

06/06/2024 21 min Episodio 47
The Perfect Sun: Episode 47

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This week we take a look at yet another amazing cooincidence in how friendly to life our sun happens to be.  Is it possible that our life friendly sun could instead be the product of an intelligent designer?  God loves you!!Recommended Reading:Strobel, Lee (2004) The Case for a Creator. ZondervanLewis, G. F., & Barnes, L. A. (2016) A Fortunate Universe. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressRoss, Hugh (2016). Improbable Planet. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker BooksMeyer, Stephen (2021) The Return of the God Hypothesis. HarperOneGonzales, G., & Richards, J. W. (2004). The Privileged Planet. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing“Lucky for us, the sun is 865,000 miles in diameter, just the right size to burn consistently for a very long time, 8 billion years, long enough to allow the next development to take place.  Life!” (Hawking, Into the Universe with Sephen Hawking:The Story of Everything, 2011)“The amount of time a star spends in the main sequence hinges on its mass.  Stars with twice the Sun’s mass only spend about a billion years in it, while those with half its mass last about 100 million years.”  Gonzales and Richards, The Privileged Planet, 2004 pg 132  “Life can’t use just any type of light from any type of star.  Our sun, as it turns out, is near the optimum for any plausible kind of chemical life.”  Gonzales and Richards, The Privileged Planet, 2004 pg 68