Cosmologic philosophy: Weinberg on quantum theory (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 07, 2017, 15:35 (2666 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Even our solar system is highly unusual compared to the ones currently discovered. But we can only know what is present in a small corner of our galaxy, two thirds of the way out on the second spiral arm. Of course other galaxies could have Earths, and God could be in charge of all of it.

dhw: I’m surprised by your final comment. In the past, you have always insisted that God IS in charge of all of it, indeed that he created all of it, and that all of it was created with a view to producing humans. My complaint has been that I don’t see the relevance of billions of other solar systems that come and go, if all he wanted to do was produce humans. (Though I think you also acknowledge the possibility that there may be other forms of life out there.)

My comment implies that God created the universe but my underlying thought, not expressed, was that He took special interest in our solar system and made sure it was created to allow for the Earth to develop in a way to prepare for life to appear. It is certainly possible that in other galaxies there are other Earths with life developed by Him. I would think those Earths would also be very unusual planets in order to support life. The type of planet and life's presence are tightly related.