God and the Universe

For instance, if the Sun were to come halfway closer to us, the heat generated on Earth would be so intense that paper would start to burn. Conversely, if the current distance between the Earth and the Sun were doubled, the cold would be so extreme that life as we know it would cease to exist on Earth. This situation would arise if, instead of the current Sun, an extraordinary star were to take its place. For example, there is a star whose heat is eighty thousand times greater than our Sun. If it were in place of the Sun, it would turn the entire Earth into a blazing furnace. FROM DENIAL TO ACKNOWLEDGMENT Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe (b. 1939) is a Sri Lankanborn British mathematician, astronomer, and astrobiologist. He was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1963 to 1973, until he became a professor of applied mathematics and astronomy at University College Cardiff. Later, he moved to the University of Buckingham as Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham. In 2015, he was elected Visiting scholar at Churchill College, Cambridge, England. He spent many years working on the issue of the origin of life on Earth with noted British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle (who served as the Director of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and was President of the Royal Astronomical Society). The duo, regarded as among Britain’s most eminent scientists,