Search for Extraterrestrial Life

GOD: VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE refers to the natural structure and system that provides essential elements for sustaining life: oxygen, carbon dioxide, food, water, waste disposal, and temperature and pressure regulation. Due to this inherent system, the Earth is habitable for living beings like humans. No planetary system of this kind has been discovered in the entire universe thus far. Recently, a separate field of science has come into being called SETI, which stands for ‘Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.’ Perhaps inspired by the Darwinian evolutionary theory, some scientists speculate that there should also be intelligent creatures like humans in some other locations of the universe. The hypothetical evolutionary process desires a generality, there being no room for any exceptions in it, and so perhaps these people think that if that life ‘evolved’ on its own on Earth, this could not have been an exception and that life might also have ‘evolved’ on its own in other locations in the universe as well. An American writer, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), even declared that there were 400 million stars in our galaxy on which plants and animals could be found. But all of this was mere speculation. The Sun is an average-sized star with a diameter of 865,000 miles, approximately 109 times larger than Earth’s. The Sun’s surface temperature is estimated to be around 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The distance between the Earth and the Sun is approximately 93 million miles, a crucial factor for life on our planet. If this distance were to decrease or increase significantly, it would render the habitation of humans on Earth impossible.