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Geologists at Stanford University have confirmed the exquisite design for life of Earth’s past atmosphere that compensated for a less brilliant Sun at that time (the faint Sun paradox). They performed measurements that established a lower limit for the carbon dioxide level of Earth’s atmosphere 3.2 billion years ago. A carbon dioxide upper limit was recently established for Earth’s atmosphere 2.75 billion years ago. Taken together, these measurements confirm that indeed just-right geological processes combined with just-right creations and removals of life perfectly compensated for a Sun that first got fainter through rapid mass loss and then got brighter through helium production at its core. Such exquisite, ongoing, step-by-step fine-tuning demands a supernatural Creator with supernatural foresight.

 Angela M. Hessler et al., “A Lower Limit for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels 3.2 Billion Years Ago,” Nature, 428 (2004), pp. 736-738; I.-Julianna Sackmann and Arnold I. Boothroyd, “Our Sun. V. A Bright Young Sun Consistent with Helioseismology and Warm Temperatures on Ancient Earth and Mars,” Astrophysical Journal, 583 (2003), pp. 1024-1039.

http://www.nature.com/ cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v428/n6984/abs/nature02471_fs.html

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v583n2/55653/brief/55653.abstract.html

RTB articles: Facts for Faith article on the faint sun paradox

RTB video: Journey Toward Creation, 2^nd edition

RTB book: The Creator and the Cosmos, 3^rd edition