As a meditation on human origins as somehow alien, Prometheus most closely compares to Brian De Palma's much maligned Mission to Mars, but in comparison to that movie the «engineers» in Prometheus have no care for mere human life or
for life on the planet earth as a whole.
Consider what price you might charge
for all life on planet earth and its viability, divide that by the amount of fossil fuel used, and you'd get a whopping $ infinity per gallon or KWH.
Not exact matches
Second: The Creation tale is simply a way
for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that
earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe
on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the
planets,
life itself and us.
In fact, by failing to do so, you become a culprit by not probing their minds to make sure that whether they are aware of this biblical truth and hence being perished and away from that everlasting love
for eternity — and
for this very reason and negligence or misguidance, you will be responsible and accountable when you meet with your creator God of love whom he also loved you so much that if you were the only person
living on the face of this
earth and
planet, still he would have come and died
for you and the forgiveness of your since and loving you unconditional.
The chances that your spirit
for want of a better word will
live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another
life form from a distant
planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our
earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).
the evolutionary theory is the best explaination
for the diversity of
life on the
planet earth.
all land plants would be damaged or destroyed, temperatures [would] plummet
for several months,... All biological
life on planet earth would be gravely threatened» (p. 7) We hold the powers of
life and death within our hands, declare the bishops.
There is no God, Heaven, or Hell (except
for Rap Music), there is just our
lives on Planet Earth.
Contrary to what geologists and physicists might claim, this rapid acceleration and deceleration would not cause the
planet itself any harm, nor would it cause issues
for life on Earth.
Also, that does not address the fact that you would need 5 times the water
on the
planet to flood thae
earth to the level the myth says, Noah could not have built a watyer tight craft using the stone tools he would have had at that time, the salinity of the oceans would change enough to kill all
life in the oceans, so that would end the food chains, ending all
life for a very long time.
The sun is not perfectly positioned upon the
earth by accident it was placed there
for a reason and purpose to support
life which is God attended... We are not
on this
planet on accident we did not evolve from a single cell that theory has been debunked
for many years...
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the
planet earth available, with its limited resources,
for all humanity - the
planet's ecology as common essential source of
life and hence of concern
for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes
for particularity and different contexts
for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge
on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
4s) then photons erupted from this energy cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5s) photons and other particles form the bodies of the early universe (atoms, molecules, stars,
planets, galaxies) 6s) it rained
on the early
earth until it was cool enough
for oceans to form 7s) the first
life form was blue green bacteria.
It seems to me that this latest shift in 20th - century theology is not to a different issue from that of liberation theologies, but to a deepening of it, a recognition that the fate of the oppressed and the fate of the
earth are inextricably interrelated,
for we all
live on one
planet — a
planet vulnerable to our destructive behavior.
It's rough out there in nature, whether in the wilds of a rain forest or an urban jungle, partly because the
earth is jammed with devout human predators unlike all others: we not only kill
for food, we kill each other along with the natural forces nourishing
life on this
planet.
Calculations indicate that in several ways it is quite an
Earth - like
planet: its radius is 1.2 to 2.5 times that of
Earth; its mass is 3.1 to 4.3 times greater; and, crucially, its orbit lies within its star's «Goldilocks zone», which means its surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold
for liquid water - and therefore potentially
life - to exist
on its surface.
At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of
life on spaceship
earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite
planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency
for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.
Also, how did the moon, sun & other
planets get at their perfectly placed addresses in order
for life to exist
on earth only?
As
for Christ, we who call ourselves Christians regard him as the uniquely great teacher and very special manifestation of God in our midst: one who shared our existence
on planet earth, bore our sins, gave his
life for us, and miraculously reappeared to his disciples and others after death — in what form, we do not know.
Today we are struggling
for the survival not only of human civilization, but
for survival of
life on the
planet Earth.
4) then photons erupted from this energy 4) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) cloud (detectable today as the microwave background radiation) 5) photons and other particles form the 5) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above bodies of the early universe (atoms, (2nd day) molecules, stars,
planets, galaxies) 6) it rained
on the early
earth until it was 6) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) cool enough
for oceans to form 7) the first
life form was blue green bacteria.
And the best sci - fi show
on television today is Battlestar Galactica, a «reimagining» of a short -
lived late - 1970s series about the last remnants of humanity fleeing a genocide perpetrated by their own creations — a race of humanoid robots called Cylons — and searching
for our species» last refuge, a mythical
planet called
Earth.
It is the original source of food
for life on earth and continues to be good
for us as well as the
planet.
But the more I reflect
on the world I
live in and the future I am creating
for my children, the more I have come to understand the role that breastfeeding plays in conserving the
Earth's resources and reducing our imprint
on an already well - trodden
planet.
The possibility that human visitors could carry
Earth - based microbes to the Red
Planet has roiled the Mars research community, Lisa Grossman reported in «How to keep humans from ruining the search
for life on Mars» (SN: 1/20/18, p. 22).
Work to identify the «habitable zones» in which such
planets might exist has turned up some startling insights — not just about them, but also our own
planet (see «Goodbye, Goldilocks: is
life on Earth heading
for an earlier demise?
Scientists think it would be tough to adapt to
Earth after
living for years
on the Red
Planet.
We thought that the search
for life on other
planets meant finding
Earth's twin.
At first, they were extremely simple, resembling today's sponges or jellyfish, but
Earth was
on its way from being,
for eons, a
planet less than hospitable to complex
life to becoming one bursting with it.
Steve: You can read Foley's article «Boundaries
for a Healthy
Planet» in the April issue of Scientific American and
on our Web site — it is part of a special section called
Living on a New
Earth — and see a video summing up environmental boundaries
on the Scientific American Web site.
Researchers from Bern have developed a method to simplify the search
for Earth - like
planets: By using new theoretical models they rule out the possibility of
Earth - like conditions, and therefore
life,
on certain
planets outside our solar system — and limit their search by doing so.
In this slim but absorbing introduction to the epic search
for life on extrasolar
planets, Sasselov explores how astronomy, geology, and biology are conspiring to give us a radical new vision of a universe in which our
living Earth is «just another
planet.»
That would be big enough to fulfill several high - priority items
on astronomers» wish lists, revolutionizing studies of faraway galaxies, observations of
planets in the outer solar system and searches
for life on Earth - like exoplanets.
If plant
life does exist
on a
planet like Kepler - 186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red - wavelength photons, making
for a color palette that's very different than the greens
on Earth.
Marshall and his colleagues proved the concept of testing
for vanadium
on known microfossils with acknowledged biological origins
on Earth — organic microfossils called acritarchs that might not be far from the kinds of traces of
life possibly existing
on the Red
Planet.
«Low level of oxygen in
Earth's middle ages delayed evolution
for two billion years: A low level of atmospheric oxygen in
Earth's middle ages held back evolution
for 2 billion years, raising fresh questions about the origins of
life on this
planet.»
A low level of atmospheric oxygen in
Earth's middle ages held back evolution
for 2 billion years, raising fresh questions about the origins of
life on this
planet.
With the New Worlds Observer, I'm helping NASA look
for Earth - like
planets and signs of
life on them.
Since liquid water is critical to
life on Earth, many astronomers believe the search
for extraterrestrial
life should focus
on planets where liquid water occurs.
If Proxima b proves to have an atmosphere, Loeb and Kreidberg have also proposed using Webb to probe
for the infrared signature of ozone in Proxima Centauri's glare as a possible sign that the
planet's air is filled with oxygen — something that,
on Earth, is mostly produced by
life.
«Understanding the universe in its totality interests me more than looking
for life on a
planet like
Earth around a star like the sun, which is the declared goal of our competitors.
Prior to 2007 scientists weren't sure what emissions reduction goal to shoot
for, but new evidence led researchers to reach consensus
on 350 ppm if we wished to have a
planet, in the words of NASA climatologist James Hansen, «similar to the one
on which civilization developed and to which
life on earth is adapted.»
For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered
For a long time, that's been a confounding problem in the search
for life beyond Earth: If alien life looks nothing like it does on our planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered
for life beyond
Earth: If alien
life looks nothing like it does
on our
planet, if it abjures DNA and RNA
for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered
for building blocks utterly strange, how could robotic explorers even know that they've discovered it?
In the end, he argues that understanding the interplay between
Earth's geological and biological pasts can help us predict and prepare
for the future of
life on our
planet.
The Dialogue
on Science, Ethics, and Religion Program and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science are pleased to have presented an event exploring new findings in the search
for planets and
life beyond
Earth.
This also suggests that, assuming evolution takes place at a similar rate to
Earth's, you want to search
for complex
life on planets that are about five and a half billion years old, a billion years older than
Earth.
What we are witnessing in the New Pangaea, he says, isn't the death of our
planet, but «a fresh start
for life on Earth... This is liberating.»
Located 620 light - years away, it is the first
planet found by NASA's Kepler space telescope to reside in its star's habitable zone — a region that can support liquid water, a key requirement
for life on Earth.
The organic reactions that may have established the starting conditions
for life on the early
Earth are long gone, erased by our
planet's high - speed chemical and geologic evolution.
The next NASA mission planning to use an MMRTG is the Mars 2020 rover, due to be launched as part of NASA's Journey to Mars, to seek signs of past
life on the Red
Planet, test technology
for human exploration, and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to
Earth in the future.