The vast amount of coincidences required to permit life on earth exceeds the bounds of credibility. Instead, it speaks of design. The evidence we have suggests that advanced physical life doesn’t exist elsewhere in the universe—unless, of course, it’s the result of purposeful design.

Four thousand years ago, when God made a covenant with Abraham, he led him outside and told him, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them….So shall your descendants be” (Gen. 15:5). The stars in the night sky were innumerable, the heavens vast beyond measure.

More recently, the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have given us even clearer portraits of just how immense the heavens are, and they have helped shed light on some of the mysteries of the universe. This has also raised the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?

Considering the vastness of the cosmos, many conclude there must be life out there. Just considering the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are billions of planets roughly the same size as Earth. One science writer states that “the ingredients in the recipe for earthly life—water, elements associated with life, available sources of energy—appear to be almost everywhere we’ve looked…. While the chances of finding life elsewhere remain unknown, the odds can be said to be improving.”

Yet while advanced life exists on Earth, an incredible number of factors in the cosmos and on Earth are exquisitely fine-tuned for this to be possible. The more data we have, the more we find that the best location for life to exist in the vast cosmos is where Earth is located—in our particular solar system, in our particular galaxy, in our particular supercluster of galaxies, and in our particular super-supercluster. Conditions in outer space are hostile to complex life everywhere else we look.

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