[punknpuss]

... all so fine tuned as to suggest this IS the place God chose for humanity . . .
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Agreed. Additionally I have often thought that God does not duplicate His work. Not one leaf is like another, no two fingerprints are alike. He is in the business of carefully crafting originals. Why then would He make another world like this one? I believe that everything He does is of a unique nature including the earth and mankind.

[The Citizen Soldier]

I have often thought that God does not duplicate His work. Not one leaf is like another, no two fingerprints are alike. He is in the business of carefully crafting originals.

Very well said.

Further, He created us in His image ...and then transforms us into "new" creatures. (2 Cor. 5:17).