Is our solar system weird? (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, May 05, 2016, 12:13 (3124 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I assume nothing. I can only think about what the "experts" tell us. I have pointed out that what we see in our galaxy apparently allows for some six thousand million solar systems similar to ours, and we're told there may be billions more elsewhere. Of course we don't know, so why "assume" that ours is “very unusual”?-DAVID: Unusual? Because what is seen so far in the nearby solar systems discovered, none looks like ours. We are the oddball, the rest is supposition.-You asked us to “note the entry of Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 05:40 where it is shown only 6% of solar systems have some resemblance to ours.”-I'm just pointing out that “only” 6% gives us up to six thousand million in our own galaxy. I don't know why you drew our attention to this if you wanted us to ignore it. Here is another website:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100105161540.htm-QUOTE: "In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is. They've concluded that about 10 percent of stars in the universe host systems of planets like our own, with several gas giant planets in the outer part of the solar system." -Mysteriously this has changed to 15% in the headline and in the following text. I agree with you that it's all supposition, but so is your claim that we are the “oddball”. If we don't know, we don't know. It won't make any difference anyway to you or to your atheist counterparts, as you will all stick to your respective suppositions, which have been set out so lucidly in my ought-to-be-Nobel-Prizewinning Extraterrestrial Life and Its Relevance to God.