Why I wonder at Star Dust
Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.Carl Sagan
The quotes of Carl Sagan are often circulated as if they provide an answer of atheists' dreams of a world based on chaos. They surmise that the universe is without purpose and without a designer.
The opposite is true. Stardust shows we are not without intricate engineering to bring humans into existence. Intricate engineering design is needed for life from bacteria to elephants and other creatures. It is needed to sustain them in health while providing humans with a mind and curiosity for educational understanding about their existence and purpose.
Chaos is a bizarre concept to cling to. It is the opposite of science. Science is a Judeo-Christian understanding of the universality of physical laws and hence a lawgiver.
Central neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula
Why is the Earth the densest planet in our solar system, composed of a full range of elements including the heaviest in natural existence like uranium, plutonium and iridium.
They don't come from our Sun.
Scientists have come up with some extraordinary theories, some hard to believe. One early theory is that all the planets were spewed out of the Sun. That seemed logical – until chemical analysis of both bodies could be made. Earth’s heavy matter can’t be found there.
The Sun is almost completely made of Hydrogen and Helium. These are the lightest of all elements. The amount of all other elements is vanishingly small, 2 percent. Only 600 atoms in million are oxygen; only 30 in a million are iron. Iron, however, makes up the abundant and essential core mass of Earth.
The two bodies are vastly different. They have little in common. How then did molten metal get concentrated and form the Earth’s core? If the Sun was the source how did such a variety of materials beside the iron core get concentrated to form planet Earth? And if planet Earth was formed of white-hot iron and other materials at 6000 degrees C, how did it get to be covered with water? Why is water intermingled in its interior rocks? Wouldn’t water be the first to blow out into outer space as super-heated steam.
Our Sun could not have produced these heavy elements. It is too puny in size and too young in its evolution. According to the modern astrophysical theory only a giant neutron star ten, twenty or more times the size of the Sun would be capable of collapsing to create the fusion reactions necessary to make these heavy elements.
To start the fusion process, the giant star has to collapse into a tiny ball the size of the Earth. The Earth's total mass would be contained in a ball just 300 meters across.
To date only 3000 of such neutron stars or pulsars have been detected in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The nearest are hundreds of light years away.
How did our Uranium and other elements and delicate compounds of life get transported and concentrated here? Why are all the planets so different from each other in composition?
Dreamers with simplistic dreams need not apply.
This is some engineering project. Chaos does not come into it.
Sleep on Carl Sagan!
