A Passel of Exoplanets
The folks at NASA announced they have discovered a total of 5,000 extra-solar planets. While space exploration is exciting, it has degraded into finding life beyond Earth. A tremendous amount of tax money has been sent to essentially support abiogenesis (life from non-life) and evolution.
Venus and Mars have never shown signs of life, but secularists keep on trying. Other planets and moons in our solar system have not only come up empty, but support recent creation. Also, NASA admitted that there is little hope to find signs of life on exoplanets.
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The habitable zone concept is narrowing, despite efforts to find superhabitable planets. They keep changing the parameters (essentially moving the goalposts) so they can score. Since secularists are passionate about their blind faith, now they speculate that water may not be so important to extraterrestrial life after all.
Evolutionary scientists would like nothing better than to find life (in any form) outside Earth. But so far this has been lacking. The pages of the book on astrobiology (the study of life in the universe) remain blank, figuratively speaking. Regardless, some astronomers have predicted alien contact in just three years and half of humanity “believes in” aliens.
Recently, a space exploration milestone has been achieved with NASA passing the 5,000 mark in terms of discovering exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than our sun). Of course, these are only the exoplanets whose existence has been confirmed. Could there be millions, or even trillions more such planets?
To read the rest, blast off for "NASA Announces: 5000 Exoplanets Discovered." Be sure to come back for the next article!
Five days before the article you just read (hint hint nudge nudge say no more) was published, Dr. Faulkner had his say on the subject. His takes a different approach. For one thing, the search for habitable planets is an effort to support evolution, but it is also a way to show that Earth is not special. That's the opposite of the truth, as this blue marble was created to be special in God's plan.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but in secular models for the formation of the universe, shouldn't there be a great deal of uniformity? Finding earthlike planets should not be a problem nowadays, but it's not happening. In fact, what is discovered defies naturalistic origin stories, such as "hot Jupiters" in eccentric orbits. Indeed, some of those planets "should not" exist according to secularists. It's almost funny how those scientists pretend that things refuting their paradigm are "exciting" and "help us understand" evolution. Tell us more, glorious storytellers, that's why you get tax money.
To read the rest, sail over to "5,000 Known Exoplanets and Counting."How well has this objective fared? Not very well. First, there is the problem of the many exoplanets and planetary systems around other stars that defy natural origins. Decades ago, planetary scientists worked out a theory of how planets likely formed, using the solar system as a guide. This theory results in small, rocky planets relatively close to the stars they orbit, with larger, gas giant planets far from the stars they orbit, just like in our solar system. However, over the past 30 years astronomers have discovered many gas giant planets orbiting very close to stars. In this time, astronomers have realized that the solar system is a bit of an anomaly.