Sometimes, during long winter evenings, I feel like something isn’t quite right with our planet. It’s not that it’s a bad place. Rather, it seems perfectly designed to support life for a long time, almost as if it were an artificial planet. Despite scientists confirming multiple mass extinctions on Earth where life nearly vanished but somehow managed to survive, the climate has remained fairly stable over the last 500 million years. This stability has allowed life to evolve from single cells to complex organisms, including humans.
This leads me to an interesting thought: the chances of finding another planet just like ours are almost none. This could mean that Earth was artificially made with precise conditions to sustain life. Who created it and why remains a mystery.
For what?
Maybe people are studying historical processes or developing social technologies. Or perhaps someone created our world and us just for fun, or it’s all a computer simulation. Consider this: we might not have had a past since 1900. Most of the major historical events and nearly 80 percent of all the people who have ever lived were born in the last 100 years. In this short time, we’ve seen huge advancements in space travel, electronics, nuclear energy, and information technology that weren’t seen in the thousands of years before.
Could it be that there was nobody on Earth before then?
Let’s set aside these controversial ideas and look at the facts that suggest our planet was artificially created.
- The Milky Way Galaxy is about 12 billion years old. It’s a very stable galaxy that hasn’t been part of any major disasters in the last 5 billion years, which helped the Solar System form peacefully in a region rich in chemicals needed for life on Earth.
- The position of the Solar System in the galaxy is also ideal. There are no dangerous quasars, pulsars, or areas of intense star formation nearby. We’re not affected by harmful x-ray radiation from the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center.
- Our Solar System seems perfectly balanced. It has four rocky planets and four giant planets. The giant planets protect the inner planets from large space objects that could come from beyond our system or even from deep space.
It’s believed that if a 50-kilometer asteroid hit Earth, it would kill all complex life. But the giant planets use their gravity to change the paths of such objects so they rarely reach the inner Solar System. This protection allows life to develop smoothly without major disasters.
- Sun: Our sun is unique. While 75 percent of stars in the universe are dim red dwarfs that often release strong flares, our sun is very stable. It doesn’t have big flares that could destroy life, it changes brightness slowly, and has a predictable cycle. In this universe, stars like ours are rare.
- Earth’s Location: Earth is perfectly positioned in the “habitable zone” of the solar system, the ideal distance from the sun for liquid water to exist. Mars and Venus, our neighbouring planets, sit on the edges of this zone and their conditions are harsh: Mars is a cold, dry desert, while Venus is a hot, high-pressure environment with acid rain. Earth, however, has life-supporting blue oceans and continents.
- Planet Earth: Earth is perfect for life. It has diverse climates, plate tectonics, and the right amount of water to maintain stable environmental cycles over billions of years. Its strong magnetic field protects us from cosmic radiation, essential for the existence and evolution of life forms based on proteins. Life exists within a delicate temperature range of plus or minus 20 degrees Celsius.
- Moon: Earth’s moon is ideally placed to support life here. It creates essential rhythms for Earth’s day and stabilizes the planet’s rotation axis. Without the moon, Earth’s seasons would be extremely erratic and long-lasting, which could negatively affect the development of life.
Conclusion: Earth is exceptionally unique. Life here was simple and single-celled for billions of years, then suddenly complex multicellular life emerged. Scientists say the chances of this happening are incredibly slim. When you consider the probabilities of all the unique features and events described here, the likelihood of them all happening by chance is almost zero. This makes you wonder, doesn’t it? Does it all feel too coincidental to be just chance?