A MISTAKE OF 10% IN DISTANCE, DIAMETER, OR TEMPERATURE OF THE SUN

Our sun is one of the smallest stars in the universe, but it is exactly big enough and far enough away. No one knows exactly how much heat comes to the earth from the sun because we do not know how cold the earth would be without the sun. From absolute zero up to the heat under the direct rays of the sun would be over 600 degrees. If we take as a basis, 5 per cent more or less heat would ruin the world. Thirty degrees more heat would roast meat under a glass cover under direct rays of the sun. Thirty degrees less heat would usher in a glacial age.

If the sun were smaller, cooler, or farther away, a 5 per cent mistake would not be much for a scientist to make, but too much for God to make.

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