Genesis teaches that the creation of life on earth was a marvelously designed work of God. A recent article in Time, which speculates on the possibility of life on other planets, confirms the wonder of life on earth:

Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, for one, considers the likelihood of life of any sort beyond our planet close to zilch. Says he: "The chance that this improbable phenomenon [the creation of life] could have occurred several times is exceedingly small, no matter how many millions of planets in the universe."

Paleontologists Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee agree. In a provocative new book, Rare Earth, they maintain that in most places beyond Earth, radiation and heat levels are so high, life-friendly planets so scarce and the cosmic bombardments—like the one that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago—so severe that the only life-forms that might make it would be bacteria-like critters living deep in the soil. The odds against technologically advanced societies, they argue, are astronomical….

Even Geoff Marcy, the leader in the increasingly successful hunt for planets outside our solar system, feels that we may well be alone in the universe.

Alone? Not completely alone. Doesn't it all point to a Designer? Our earth's uniqueness is one more reason to believe in the One who created the perfect universe and a unique planet to harbor the crown of his creation.