Earth's Habitable Zone

1. All ancient people remembered the shattering of a great planet at close range. The pagan poets described this event graphically as though it happened at close range. Job and Isaiah also described the shattering using similar words. Thousands of asteroids and comets orbit the Sun. They often contain volcanic rocks, high temperature crystals, limestone-like deposits and ice (on comets) as though they came from a shattered, watery planet. The asteroid Eros had concentric rings around flat dust ponds. The dust rings encircle the lowest point in valleys - ponds that evaporated leaving the desiccated mud. * Asteroids and comets also have irregular shapes - visibly made of solid rock.
2. Spacecraft discovered that Mars once had branching river streams that emptied into a vast northern ocean. The rover Opportunity found rocks that formed in liquid water on the Meridiani plain. The rover Spirit found powdered silica deposited by an ancient hot spring. The Phoenix lander sat down on a frozen sea covered with a thin dust crust. Mars today is so cold that its water is either underground or under layers of frozen CO2 or dust. Venus once had water that is now bound up in sulfuric acid clouds. Today, lead melts on Venus' surface. If the Earth remained habitable because it is in an unchanging sweet spot, why have the planets on either side of us changed so radically? The nearest sun ward planet is now an inferno and the nearest outboard one became a frozen desert.
3. Ancient astronomers kept on measuring a smaller solar parallax than their predecessors, as though the earth's orbit were gradually spiraling outward. (Parallax is a method of measuring distance - optically.) Fifty years ago scientists calculated a canonical distance to the Sun with radar. Yet recent Martian oppositions and the Venus transit optically showed an expanding solar system. Ptolemy, 1850 years ago, measured angular planet position on specific dates. His observations have "errors" when compared to our calculations. Yet all his alleged errors cancel so his mathematical system worked. He could not have faked the observations without a digital computer. His observations fit a smaller solar system.
4. We actually see the past in the distant heavens - exactly as it was long ago. We observe that primordial galaxies were naked, without arms or diffuse structure. At closer ranges we observe discrete globs packed with stars in equally spaced chains around the nuclei. At many ranges, we observe how those globular clusters spread out, accelerated out, rotated outward as billions of galaxies grew into huge, dusty, growth-spirals. ** We also observe that closer galaxies have faster atomic clock frequencies than ancient ones. Visibly, the clocks and the orbits accelerate together as the stars spiral outward in defiance of every law of science. We can verify that even local clocks accelerate. Scientists sent calibrated clocks out of the solar system on the Pioneer spacecraft. Their clocks, as observed in the radio signals, continued to slow down the farther they were from Earth. This did not correlate with Doppler (speed) but with distance. If all clocks always accelerate, the ones that transmitted from the past would appear slower than local clocks, which is what we observe.