Solar Eclipses

[Cito di Pense]

They took seriously the notion of hierarchy, and humankind’s midway status within it.

Yes, there's a midway, and that kind of nonsense is the noise of that midway's carnival barker.

[Spearthrower]

We all know the the law of gravity explains why celestial bodies orbit each other by the power of attraction between masses.

However, there is no physical law that fixes them in any kind of positional distance from each other.

A solar eclipse is made possible by the fact that the Sun is 400 times the distance the moon is to the Earth and that it is also 400 times larger in diameter: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/total-solar-eclipse/en/

The solar eclipse is also not very regular - and so a special treat - because the moon's orbital plane is slightly misaligned from Earth's orbital plane around the sun: https://www.livescience.com/60037-do-ot ... ipses.html

Is this all just a happy coincidence that this astonishing phenomenon occurs only on Earth, the only planet know to contain intelligent life that can observe it? Or is it just further evidence for design in the universe?

You decide.

HAPPY coincidence?

What exactly is happy about it? That it makes nice eclipses for you to enjoy?

If the Moon was closer or further away, you'd still have eclipses: just they'd be slightly different than now.

And eclipses happen throughout the universe, chap - regardless of the apparent lack of created appreciating observers.

Don't decide: think

[Calilasseia]

"Basic laws of motion are too hard for me to understand, therefore Magic Man did it". That's this individual's schtick in a nutshell here.

[Spearthrower]

The 93 billion light year diameter, with its hundreds of billions of galaxies many with countless thousand solar systems of their own, was quite the setup just so a 20th century guy could have really quite satisfying eclipses.

[Calilasseia]

The 93 billion light year diameter, with its hundreds of billions of galaxies many with countless thousand solar systems of their own, was quite the setup just so a 20th century guy could have really quite satisfying eclipses.

And the irony of seeing people who don't subscribe to such views, being labelled "arrogant" by those who do, is not lost upon me.