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32 THE PERFECT DESIGN IN THE UNIVERSE IS NOT BY CHANCE

The distribution of heavenly bodies in the universe is
designed exactly to conform to the needs of human life. In
his book The Symbiotic Universe, American astronomer

George Greenstein explains the importance of the huge
voids in space and the distances between heavenly bodies:
All that wasted space! On the other hand, in this very
waste lies our safety. It is a precondition for our exis-
tence. Most remarkable of all is that the overall empti-
ness of the cosmos seems to have no other consequence
in the astronomical realm. Had the stars been somewhat