Solar system is stable and unique
As more data is gathered of other star systems in the Milky Way, secular scientists seem perplexed. They are increasingly forced to acknowledge that our solar system is unique, and surprisingly stable. This stability holds Earth in the ideal Goldilocks Zone (i.e., ‘not too hot; not too cold’), which supports life. Stuart Clark writes: “…a new picture is emerging of how solar systems form in a chaos of planet building with no certain outcome. … a nagging question is becoming louder: instead of being the archetypal solar system, are we actually the freak?”
None of the 3,600 planetary systems discovered so far (and 5,000 identified exoplanets) resembles our system. Many are highly compact, such as Kepler-90 where Earth-sized planets and gas giants orbit close to the parent star. (All eight planets orbit inside the equivalent distance of Earth’s orbit.) It is believed that gravitational attraction has reduced the planetary orbits substantially or rendered them highly elliptical.
Medium-sized planets are common in other star systems, but none exist in ours, which is composed of either gas giants such as Jupiter or Saturn, or small solid planets like Earth. Attempts at modelling the solar system (the Nice model) suggest that Jupiter and Saturn have together resisted such gravitational pull in our system, and given stability to Earth’s orbit. And yet very small changes in the model parameters lead to instability.
This latest research thus highlights more evidence of intelligent design, although not acknowledged by naturalistic scientists.
- Clark S., Shaken and stirred, New Scientist 252(3363):46–49, 4 Dec 2021.
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