Sun's Properties Not Fine-Tuned for Life

25 May 2008

 When our sun is compared to the “known” characteristics or other stars it is not considered anything special according to a study from the Australian National University. Our sun is more massive than 95% of nearby stars and has a more circular orbit than 93% of nearby stars but when compared to the luminosity, temperature, age, metallicity, elemental ratios, rotational velocity, galactic orbital parameters, host galaxy mass, and host group mass the sun looks like any other star (that is assuming we definitively know all this information about stars that are so far away we can not even see them).

 Does this crush us that believe that we are a special creation in the universe? Of course not. The sun can be an ordinary sun, the moon can be an ordinary rock, the planet can be an ordinary planet, but every one of them need to be in their exact placement for life to exist. According to evolution any planet with these same environments should have life popping up on it just like we have here.

 The problem? Life can't evolve.

 Everything about this planet can be called “natural” but life never comes from non-life. Even if it is statistically possible for other planets to have these same characteristics, life can never just pop up out of non-living material.

 - The sun in itself is not special
 - The moon in itself is not special
 - The earth in itself is not special
 - Intelligent life is special and the fact that the earth, sun, and moon exist declare the glory of God.

http://info.anu.edu.au/ovc/Media/Media_Releases/_2008/_May/ _20080521_sun.asp