Earth's Story Is One in a Billion
For this is what the Lord says—
he who created the heavens,
he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth,
he founded it; he did not create it to be empty,
but formed it to be inhabited—he says:
“I am the Lord, and there is no other.”
—Isaiah 45:18
Just a few short decades ago, the Earth was considered to be an ordinary planet, orbiting an ordinary star, lost in a vast galaxy of other stars, amid myriad other galaxies populating the cosmos. Mindless processes produced the first living organisms, we were told, which slowly evolved over the eons to produce creatures like us.1 This secular myth was accepted hook, line, and sinker by the uneducated...
is the author of seven books in amateur and professional astronomy. His historical work, Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy, celebrates four centuries of telescopic astronomy and the characters who shaped the science.
This article originally appeared in Salvo, Issue #51, Winter 2019 Copyright © 2022 Salvo | www.salvomag.com https://salvomag.com/article/salvo51/planetary-jewel