The earth is perfect for life.

[smoking habit]

Everyone is always saying how the earth is perfect for life and there's no way the earth could just have come about and somehow been perfect to inhabit life, without a creator developing it that way.

well isn't it more like... LIFE itself adapted/evolved to the properties of the earth, from the first "things" that were alive that needed the most minute of resources to survive...

rather than the earth was just perfect for life from the beginning??

This question has just been on my mind all day and I wanted some insight.

[couch-potato]

Life adapted to the earth. I've always pondered that somewhere out there is another planet which is even more suitable for life than our earth. Imagine the evolution on that motherfucker... I don't think any of us truly can.

[Innominate]

Life is perfect for specific qualities the universe provides to promote biological growth. We are a miracle. We are a disease.

A bigger, better Earth. Such a discovery would be the greatest of our imaginations, but if such an event occurred, I hope we learn from everything we did wrong here and not destroy mankind's gift.

[ChiefSmokesAlot]

Life adapted to the earth. I've always pondered that somewhere out there is another planet which is even more suitable for life than our earth. Imagine the evolution on that motherfucker... I don't think any of us truly can.

Right on.:thumbsup:

[The Marsh Wiggle]

Life is not possible without life, life cannot come from non living life.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Life is not possible without life, life cannot come from non living life.

Bullshit. There are numerous theories on abiogenesis. No current life could come from non-life because it's all designed that way. Nobody has a clear picture of the beginnings of life or what form they took. A current lack in understanding of how to replicate abiogenesis doesn't make it fact that it never happened anywhere.

[dragonrider]

When life emerged on the earth, the earth was not the way it is now. We could not live on the original earth at the time that life first came about --- it was like a totally alien planet at the time. So the earth that exists now is perfect for the life that exists now, and the earth that existed then was perfect for the life that existed then. Both the earth and the life on it evolved together over time.

One example of this is the fact that the earth's atmosphere at the time of the emergence of life did not contain the oxygen it does now. When green plants evolved, they began to put oxygen into the atmosphere. Once there was enough oxygen, new kinds of oxygen-breathing organisms evolved. So in that case, the evolution of a new kind of life resulted in a change in the earth itself, and that change in the environemnt lead to the evolution of another new kind of life.

[khronik]

Yeah I've said before, if this planet was inhospitable, there would be nobody here commenting on how inhospitable it is.

It took life about 500 million years to get started after the earth was formed. That life was only single-celled, for another 3.5 billion years, before differentiated multicellular organisms evolved. So for the majority of the history of the earth, the only life was single-celled.

Oh, another thing that is pretty cool. Us animals evolved from single-celled organisms that looked pretty much exactly like sperm. I'm not sure what the significance is yet. Any ideas?

[randomname4888]

When life emerged on the earth, the earth was not the way it is now. We could not live on the original earth at the time that life first came about --- it was like a totally alien planet at the time. So the earth that exists now is perfect for the life that exists now, and the earth that existed then was perfect for the life that existed then. Both the earth and the life on it evolved together over time.

One example of this is the fact that the earth's atmosphere at the time of the emergence of life did not contain the oxygen it does now. When green plants evolved, they began to put oxygen into the atmosphere. Once there was enough oxygen, new kinds of oxygen-breathing organisms evolved. So in that case, the evolution of a new kind of life resulted in a change in the earth itself, and that change in the environemnt lead to the evolution of another new kind of life.

im really baked but that was the greatest thing i ever read :stoned::stoned::stoned:

[ijustloveweed]

i dont think our minds are capable of understanding the creation of the universe and everything.

[mfqr]

Earth isn't the only planet that is perfect for life. They've found some planets far off that also appear to look similar to Earth.