This is a short post, more of a passing thought, really, as I have arrived back from Benediction a little late. Well, I did stop off for a few coca colas in the Parish club afterwards...'Tis the season when schoolchildren around the country (those still in school, that is!) are being subjected to DVDs and videos by frazzled teachers. I dislike the fact that the kids clamour for videos pretty much from the start of December, and try to limit them to the last day and a half. In reality, they prefer this too, because otherwise they get bored. Only so many DVDs you can watch in a day!
Anyway, Year 10 had their last Chemistry lesson before the holiday, and there was a science programme which one of the department had videoed... and it went on about how the Earth was perfectly set up to allow complex life to develop. There was this presenter enthusing about how, contrary to the popular belief that there might be other similar planets capable of supporting life, there might, in fact, only be one such planet in the whole universe... ours!
It had a collision with its sister planet, which made it big enough to prevent the atmosphere leaking away into outer space, and which created the Moon... which is necessary for causing seasonal variations. Jupiter is a big enough planet close by to protect the Earth from most meteorite collisions. Conditions on Earth were stable enough to allow complex life to develop, but not too stable so as to prevent adaptation and evolutionary kick-starts at various points...
Why do some people find it so difficult to accept that maybe, just maybe, the Judaeo-Christian tradition of the Earth being created specifically for Mankind could have something going for it...?
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