What's the oldest planet?and was there life?

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The big bang theory.May be that’s the way God starts making planets and was there life on the other planets?
 
Is this a genuine question?

The big bang is a theory(there are other’s being attempted). It has stood the test of time so far and is continually providing us with new understandings of the universe, so it is the best theory out there atm.

Did a God “start” the big bang? We do not know what started it. We do not know "IF’ anything started it. We do not know HOW it started. We do not know, if it even occured.

What we’ve discovered from the big bang is amazing, but it’s riddled with unknowns and it will take a long time to sort it out.

Life on other planets, MUCH more interesting question.

Considering the mathematical precision behind the universe, it is almost impossible for it to exist. What is even MORE improbable is for life to have existed.

And yet, it is slowly appearing to be the case that the universe is primed for life. If we find life on other planets, that in no way shape or form could have come from our own (or we from theirs) we have a mathematical dilema. It should not be possible.

and…at the end of the day…we do not know. Lots of people are having fun trying to figure it out though. 😃
 
Thank You DameEdna, as a christain, and realy now, that I think about what you said. I truley believe God of the universe made it. In Gen:in the begining God made the Heavens and the Earth,and all that in them is.He just thought and it became a vast beautifull universe made up of planets galexies,mystery’s,and life. I’m not a scientist,but there is alot more proof in the bible then in a telescope. I know scientists go on facts and God is fiction to most of them. You do know there is time lost in the universe and that time can be found in the bible. It was there way before anyone figured out time was ever missing. Nancy
 
nancy_dalrymple said:
The big bang theory.May be that’s the way God starts making planets and was there life on the other planets?
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Planetary systems are formed rather early in the life of stars. It’s probably not too meaningful to ask what’s the oldest planet, because there are likely billions of them in this galaxy alone, and billions more in other galaxies.

The oldest planets would of course be revolving around the oldest stars. Because of that, many of the oldest planets may no longer exist, having been fried to a crisp when their stars went nova.

Probably most of the planets are not suitable for life. After all, only one planet in our own solar system seems to have developed life. But out of all those billions, probably some are suitable and have developed life. But that’s just a guess.
 
JimG said:
Planetary systems are formed rather early in the life of stars. It’s probably not too meaningful to ask what’s the oldest planet, because there are likely billions of them in this galaxy alone, and billions more in other galaxies.

The oldest planets would of course be revolving around the oldest stars. Because of that, many of the oldest planets may no longer exist, having been fried to a crisp when their stars went nova.

Probably most of the planets are not suitable for life. After all, only one planet in our own solar system seems to have developed life. But out of all those billions, probably some are suitable and have developed life. But that’s just a guess.
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How about in this galexie,what is the oldest planet and do you think we are headed for the final frontier? Nancy Thank You
 
nancy_dalrymple said:
How about in this galexie,what is the oldest planet and do you think we are headed for the final frontier? Nancy Thank You
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I don’t think I can answer that question. From an astronomical perspective both stars and planets will have a range of ages within the galaxy. Not sure what you mean by the final frontier, but I think cosmologcally speaking, that we have a ways to go. If you are speaking from an apocalyptic perspective, no one knows that answer but God!
 
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The big bang theory.May be that’s the way God starts making planets and was there life on the other planets?
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Maybe, but we currently have no way of knowing that. If they ever find us, however, it may be a problem. There ability to get here tells us that they are much more intelligent than we are.

For now, it completely depends on your own perception and your own belief.

Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood
 
I’m guessing that the oldest planet certainly isn’t in our system. Maybe Q’onoS?
 
vera_dicere said:
I’m guessing that the oldest planet certainly isn’t in our system. Maybe Q’onoS?
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Hi Vera Thank You for your (name removed by moderator)ut I had some sites to go to i went to Gottle of Gear’s site above this one and it was very interesting a planet that they are still trying to figure out is called M4 I guess they though it was a star in the 80’s then in the 90’s they found out it was a planet.it is the furtherest from earth.I realy wanted to see if perhapes if the oldest planet could have had life on it at one time.Just wanted to know if may be we might have migrated from another one eons ago.I dont beleive we are the only ones in the galaxy’s. Nancy:thumbsup:
 
Empirical science estimates about 13 billion years from the proposed “big bang”. This is from measured science as we think we understand it.

God the creator of all in time and space could just have easily created all of it in present form including the appearance of history and memories an infinitisimally small amount of time ago. However, we have The Bible and our Sacred Tradition so I will go with that. The rest is somewhat interesting and might could be used to achieve a better understanding of God and His nature but we should be careful not to generate too much “noise” and “theories” that lead us away from Him.

For example: some of the early observations of Mars that indicated “seasons” existed and concluded that Mars probably had simple mosses and lichens. As if life was a natural occurance of scientific processes. Indeed. I also view with concern the discussions that say that if one percent of something and out of that if one percent had this and the other and if one percent was this that there would still be ten zillion planets capable of supporting life so it would be a fallacy to think that Earth is the only planet with life. As if the existence of life was simply by chance of beating the odds.

In both cases, they are making the erroneous assumption or “leap” that life is a scientific or mathematical process rather than a supernatural process. Note that God is out of the equation.

If God created life on other, possible planets, then so be it. Pray for whatever may exist. He could also have created life on Earth and nowhere else.
 
This is almost an impossible question to answer. But specuating on it is quite fascinating. It is like asking what grain of sand is the smallest on earth.

We can say with almost absolute certainty that our planet and our galaxy are probably not among the oldest in the universe.

When you look up at the night sky and extend your fingers to form a one inch square, within your square you are looking at over a billion galaxies, and each galaxy has over 2 or 3 billion stars, and each star may (or may not) have several planets.

Chances are the oldest planet would be within the oldest galaxies which would contain the oldest (stars) solar systems. If we assume the big bang is a tremendous explosion (like most scientist think it is), the galaxies furthest from the center of the explosion would be among the first created, and those closest to original explosion would be the youngest.

I think some scientists have figured out that we are somewhat on the fringes of our own galaxy. But I have not heard where we are relative to other galaxies. But given the estimated billions of galaxies, it is very unlikely that ours would be among the oldest.

Not all scientist are atheists. I think many are Christian and probably many are Catholic. I’d be curious to find out what the numbers are.
 
[SIGN]WHERE DID YOU GET THAT I CON ?👍 [/SIGN] Are you sure of your information? I’m going to look it up Nancy I thought M4 was the oldest?😦
 
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