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The Latest Scientific Discoveries Point to an Intentional Creator Most of us remember the basics from science classes about how Earth came to be the only known planet that sustains complex life. But what most people don't know is that the more thoroughly researchers investigate the history of our planet, the more astonishing the story of our existence becomes. The number and complexity of the astronomical, geological, chemical, and biological features recognized as essential to human existence have expanded explosively within the past decade. An understanding of what is required to make possible a large human population and advanced civilizations has raised profound questions about life, our purpose, and our destiny. Are we really just the result of innumerable coincidences? Or is there a more reasonable explanation? This fascinating book helps nonscientists understand the countless miracles that undergird the exquisitely fine-tuned planet we call home--as if Someone had us in mind all along.
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This is a dry, technical and well documented book/research about all the things that happened on planet earth to support life. Not only just any life but the author makes a strong claim that through the ages , on each singular event (Ice age, Cambrian explosion, etc.) the planet happened to be in the best possible state to support the most amount of life.
The main thesis here is that there are just too many things that needed to happen in order for life to even exist, and that improbability is a strong argument of a Creator.
I like that the book is significantly different than other books with a theistic point of view. Here the author paired with a biochemist try his best to give the readers with a high amount of peer reviewed papers on the origins of life and the evolution of the planet. It has almost 40 of 288 pages only for footnotes.