• Question: what made the world-was it made with bits from different planets or was our imagination( no affence just in my opinon may not be true) right about god and the making the world in 6 days therory??

    Asked by hillierl to Alastair, Emma, Hywel, Keith, Vicki on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Alastair Sloan

      Alastair Sloan answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      As far as I am aware planets formed when gaseous components in a molecular cloud or “nebulosity” get pulled together due to gravity. As more and more time passes, enough material “clumps together” which forms something called a “gravity well”. What that does is act like a huge gravitational hoover and “gathers” all the material in the vicinity and eventually, enough material gathers and gravity becomes high enough to form everything into a ball. That’s also why planets are ball shaped, because it is the most efficient response to immense gravity. This can be modelled and proved.

      Creation in a Biblical sense cannot be proved definitively which is why some people don’t believe it.

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      Keith Brain answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I’m definitely against a 6 day earth theory, unless you believe in a malicious god who gave us brains to think, and then carefully constructed and buried bountiful evidence that would lead anyone who looked hard enough to conclude that the earth was about 5 billion years old, and that life was about 4 billion years old. Wow – that was a difficult sentence – glad I got to the end. I’m not saying there isn’t a god, but a literal 6 days seems unlikely to me.

      The main-line theory in science is that the earth formed from bits of space-junk that were left over from some primordial (old!) star or stars that exploded before our own solar system formed. The only way we know of that heavy elements (like iron) can form is in stars, so it is often said (with some truth) that we are made of start-dust. The sun would have formed first, and the relatively small amount of debris that was left over got to form the planets, some 5 billion years ago.

    • Photo: Vicki Stevenson

      Vicki Stevenson answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hi – according to astrophysicists the earth was made about 4.6 billion years ago, and is a lot younger than the universe (about 14 billion years old).

      It is possible that a nearby supernova caused a shock wave which caused interstellar dust and gas to rotate and develop gravity. Most of the mass concentrated in the middle began to heat up (becoming the sun), dust particles formed rings around the sun – larger pieces began to collide and form together into planets including the earth. It took about 15 million years for the earth to form.

      At a fairly early stage the earth was hit by another protoplanet which caused some of the still molten material to be separated from the earth and become the moon.

      I don’t follow a religion so maybe one of the other’s will comment on the 6 days theory.

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