God’s Amazing Creation
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio stated in 2016: "We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit."
Bible verses referring to God’s amazing Creation.
Genesis 2:4: "The LORD God made the earth and the heavens."
Job 9:2-8: "God ... which alone spreadeth out the heavens."
Job 26:7: "He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; He suspends the earth over nothing."
Psalm 33:6: "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth."
Psalm 104:2: "Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain."
Isaiah 42:5: "The LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out."
Isaiah 45:12: "Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel ... I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."
Isaiah 48:13: "Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens."
Isaiah 51:13: "The LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens."
Jeremiah 32:17: "Ah Lord God! behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee."
Amos 9:6: "He builds his lofty palace in the heavens and sets its foundation on the earth; he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land — the Lord is his name."
Zechariah 12:1: "The LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him."
Unique aspects of God’s creation.
Unique aspect of the universe was noted by physicist Stephen Hawkins in A Brief History of Time (1996, p. 126):
"If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size.
On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form."
There are hundreds of parameters which all must be present or life on Earth would be impossible, such as:
If the Sun's gravitational pull was not balanced with the centrifugal force of the Earth spinning in orbit, the Earth would either be pulled into the Sun or fly off into space;
If the Earth were 2 percent closer to the Sun it would be scorched and if it were 2 percent further away from the Sun it would be frozen.
If the Earth did not have a molten core, there would be no magnetic field to protect the surface from deadly cosmic radiation;
If Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system -- with a mass 2.5 times all the other planets combined -- was not exerting its immense gravitational pull, comets and asteroids from space would strike the Earth;
If the Earth took longer to rotate, increased exposure to the Sun would make it inhospitable;
If the Earth did not have a tilt there would be no seasons;
If the Moon did not exist, the oceans would continually wash over the face of the Earth;
If the Moon were not in its exact position, there would not be the precise gravitational pull necessary for the Earth's ocean tides.
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Source for the above is American Minute with Bill Federer-Scientific Revolution & Astronomy, Dec. 29, 2023.
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