Page 13 - A Chain of Miracles

he universe, the Milky Way galaxy that is home to our
solar system, and our planet Earth are all governed by
countless factors. All these laws and balances have

T been specifically designed and miraculously ordered
to produce an environment suitable for human life.
Examining our universe in detail reveals that everything—
from the most fundamental cosmic laws to the most critical
physical properties, from the smallest balances to the finest ra-
tios therein—have been arranged to meet the highest level of ex-

actness. We are astonished to realize that this precision is set at
the ideal values for human existence to not only survive, but
thrive.
From the universe’s rate of expansion to our Earth’s loca-
tion in the Milky Way galaxy, from the spectrum of the Sun’s ra-

diation to the viscosity value of water, from the distance of the
Moon to the Earth to the ratio of the gases that form the atmos-
phere, countless other such factors are just right for human exis-
tence. In fact, the slightest alteration to even one of them would
make life on Earth impossible.

Not even a single one of these factors could have become so
ideal for life by sheer coincidence. The fact that thousands of el-
ements and conditions combined to create this order is miracu-
lous beyond the limits of human comprehension.
In fact, each of the factors necessary for the existence of

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