by Mark Seivert

The Goldilocks Theory (GT) application to astronomy states:

“A Goldilocks planet is a planet that falls within a star’s habitable zone, and the name is often specifically used for planets close to the size of Earth. The name comes from the children’s fairy tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, in which a little girl chooses from sets of three items, ignoring the ones that are too extreme (large or small, hot or cold, etc.), and settling on the one in the middle, which is “just right”. Likewise, a planet following this Goldilocks Principle is one that is neither too close nor too far from a star to rule out liquid water on its surface and thus life (as humans understand it) on the planet. However, planets within a habitable zone that are unlikely to host life (e.g., gas giants) may also be called Goldilocks planets. The best example of a Goldilocks planet is the Earth itself.” – crystalinks.com

Recently at a physics meetup I attended, the Goldilocks Theory (GT) came up in a video being shown. The scientists were just scratching their heads over how the conditions of this world could be so perfect for life.

This brought to my mind a picture of a microbe waking up in the morning and thinking to itself, “Wow! I must be special. The conditions of this place were made perfect for my life. Life can only exist here.” Of course, this becomes ridiculous with a little thought.

The world wasn’t made perfect for us, WE were made perfect for the world! We evolved based on the environment, not the other way around.

GT comes from, appropriately enough, a fairy tale because GT is a fairy tale. Another way to obfuscate that there is life everywhere in the universe because life evolves to survive in its environment, not the environment evolving to accommodate the existence of life. The environment is whatever it is anywhere and everywhere in the universe. Super hot, super cold, with various environments that we would consider inhospitable. They are inhospitable because our form of life did not evolve there. We evolved here in this environment so we are unique to this environment. Nothing made it perfect for us. WE WERE MADE PERFECT FOR IT THROUGH EVOLUTION.

The earth planet is 4.543 billion years old. Old enough, wouldn’t you think for life as complex as ourselves to evolve in this environment that we consider so perfect for us and us alone.

The Milky Way galaxy we call home is 13.5 billion years old. Far older then earth. Would it not be possible that life has evolved on other planets in the galaxy that are far more intelligent then we are? And furthermore, could they be visiting our planet? In spacecraft, we ignorantly call UFOs?

I would say, YES!!!

The Goldilocks Theory Implies Creationism

If the GT implies that everything was created just perfect for man (or life) on this planet, this would imply that there must be a Creator. Like in GOD?

When scientists say that there are perfect conditions on our world and certain others that support life, that is like saying there is a GOD that created this. Do scientists believe there is a GOD-Creator?

If we go strictly by conventional science, unlike the scientists propounding this theory in their quest to make our world safe from alien life, we would have to go back to our high school biology text books and examine The Theory of Evolution:

“In the mid-19th century, Charles Darwin formulated the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection, published in his book On the Origin of Species (1859). Evolution by natural selection is a process first demonstrated by the observation that often, more offspring are produced than can possibly survive. This is followed by three observable facts about living organisms: 1) traits vary among individuals with respect to morphology, physiology, and behaviour (phenotypic variation), 2) different traits confer different rates of survival and reproduction (differential fitness), and 3) traits can be passed from generation to generation (heritability of fitness). Thus, in successive generations members of a population are replaced by progeny of parents better adapted to survive and reproduce in the biophysical environment in which natural selection takes place.” – Wikipedia

But this would imply that ALL earth planets, not just those in the Goldilocks zone, have life that is or has adapted to the conditions of that particular earth planet. Our only logical conclusion would be that all planets not only in our solar system but in the galaxy, universe, etc., has life that has adapted itself over billions of years of evolution to survive in SOME FORM OR ANOTHER on that world. Does that make sense?

I am guessing since science denies there is a Creator then by inference, all planets, by token of the Theory of Evolution, must have some form of life on them particularly adapted to their environment. With the galaxy being approximately 13.5 billion years old, there would have to be some form of evolution taking place. Maybe not life as we understand it with the need for a certain amount of oxygen, sunlight, etc., like we ourselves have adapted to but other life especially adapted to those conditions of that environment of that world.

Why does science limit itself to one particular set of conditions made just for one species and apply it to the rest of the cosmos? Obviously, life wouldn’t exist out there under one specific set of rules (OUR specific set of rules).

So back to the microbe who wakes up one day and says, “Hey look! Everything around me was created just perfect for me so I could have life! Life MUST exist only UNDER those circumstances.” We would think that microbe is pretty damn ignorant. Just think what our more advanced planetary ETs might be thinking about us when we think the same.