How Did Our Universe Get Here? - The Controversy - Conclusion of Earth's Ideal Features

To the  above precision, you can add the fact that the earth rotates on its axis once a day, the right speed to produce  moderate temperatures. Venus takes 243 days to rotate. Just think if the earth took as long! We could not survive the extreme temperatures resulting from such long days and nights.

Another vital detail is that our earth's path around the sun.  Comets have a wide elliptic path. Thankfully, this is not so with the earth. Its orbit is almost circular. Again, this prevents us from experiencing death-dealing extremes of temperature.

Nor should we ignore the location of our solar system. Were it nearer the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the gravitational effect of neighboring stars would distort the orbit of the earth. In contrast,  were it situated at the very edge of our galaxy, the night sky would be all but devoid of stars.  Starlight is not essential to life, but does it not add  great beauty to our night sky?  And based on current concepts of the universe, scientists have calculated that at the edges  of the Milky Way, there would not  have been enough of the needed chemical elements to form a solar system like ours.

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From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About Us