For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:18
"The existence of life strongly depends on the precise, non-
coincidental arrangement of many natural phenomena.
One such invisible marvel is our planet’s radiation shield, called its magnetosphere. Its life-sustaining attributes strongly indicate deliberate design.
A magnetosphere is the region that surrounds an astronomical object
(like a planet, or a star) in which charged particles are affected by
that object’s magnetic field. Several planets in our solar system have
magnetospheres, but Earth has the most pronounced and robust one of all
the rocky planets.
Designed barrier
Similar to the ‘force field’ of science fiction, the magnetosphere creates a powerful obstacle to cosmic radiation
bombarding our planet continuously. Cosmic radiation consists of
various energetic charged particles—electrons, and the nuclei of various
elements stripped bare of electrons—and has two components:
- SolarOften called the solar wind, this continuous strong stream of charged particles emitted from the sun makes up the bulk of cosmic radiation. It consists mostly of electrons, protons (hydrogen nuclei) and alpha particles (helium nuclei). To give some idea of just how powerful this is, the total mass of the particles ejected by the sun each second is around 1.5 million tonnes!
- GalacticMost of this radiation is thought to come from within our own galaxy from supernovas (massive explosions as some stars ‘die’). In earlier writing especially, the term ‘cosmic radiation’ often refers to this component. It contains many of the bare nuclei of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, often travelling at much faster speeds than the solar wind. As such high-energy cosmic rays impact our atmosphere, they release showers of other, secondary, particles as well." CMI
