are the rocks on the surface of the earth the same matter that was around when the earth was first created?
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A lot of them, yes! The creation of the Earth took a very long time, and during that time, many of the rocks you can see today were formed. There are three kinds of rock - \n\nIgneous - from the molten lava once it is cooled\nSedimentary - from several layers of materials compacted together\nMetamorphic - one of the above rocks that has 'morphed' into a different kind of rock
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I'll assume you mean the beginning of the universe, not the beginning of the earth. The earth formed about 8 billion years after the universe did, so there was plenty of matter at that point.\n\nYou are wrong in saying that matter cannot come from nothing. There are always 'vacuum fluctuations' where matter and anti-matter are spontaneously forming and disappearing. This is a measured effect and is important in our understanding of electromagnetism.\n\nOn theory (and I want to emphasize that it is a theory) is that the vacuum with *nothing* in it is at a higher energy than one with *something* in it. The difference in energy is quite large and when the vacuum decayed, it allowed the formation of a *lot* of matter and anti-matter. Because of an asymmetry between matter and anti-matter, when thing recombined, there was a small amount of matter left over. This is the matter we see around us.\n\nAnother theory is that there was another 'universe' before ours that experiences a 'Big Crunch' and collapsed. There was then a type of bounce which formed our current universe. So there would have eben all the matter and energy of that previous universe to work from. This theory has recently been given more credence because of a calculation made with quantum loop gravity ( a proposed theory of quantum gravity).
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Most of the earth Surface is Covered with water, but that's only a small fraction of the planet itself. The Earth is made up mostly of silicate and magezeuim compunds and an iron core.
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Most igneous rock is formed deep in the earth where it is very hot.  Igneous means fire, similar to ignition which fires a spark plug in an engine.  Igneous rock may be formed at or near the surface of the earth when volcanoes erupt and lava flows.  The rock closest to the lava heats up most and becomes more igneous than rock further and further away.  There is usually a clear change in coloration of the affected rock because its crystal minerals are altered by the heat.  Lava can flow following existing cracks in rocks and partially transform the adjacent rock to igneous foorms as it cools.
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The official answer is that the rock itself dates clear back to the precambrian. That is OLD, somewhere between 700 and 4700 million years ago.
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Rocks tell the story of the Earth. The Earth is made of rock, from the tallest mountains to the floor of the deepest ocean. Thousands of different types of rocks and minerals have been found on Earth. Most rocks at the Earth's surface are formed from only eight elements (oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium), but these elements are combined in a number of ways to make rocks that are very different.\nRocks are continually changing. Wind and water wear them down and carry bits of rock away; the tiny particles accumulate in a lake or ocean and harden into rock again. The oldest rock that has ever been found is more than 3.9 billion years old. The Earth itself is at least 4.5 billion years old, but rocks from the beginning of Earth's history have changed so much from their original form that they have become new kinds of rock. By studying how rocks form and change, scientists have built a solid understanding of the Earth we live on and its long history.
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ok first of all just because one thing the bible says is true,that wouldnt make the entire thing true and second of all,originally the Earth was a ball of molten rock that cooled down.water didnt come around till later(im not sure how though)
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Here is something for you to ponder.....\nScientists claim that the earth is millions of years old. They make this claim by studying the layers of the earth (example: The Grand Canyon) If you look at the walls of the grand canyon, you can see many different layers of sediment on the walls of the canyon. The heavier and most dense rocks and solid formations are near the bottom of the canyon itself. The softer, less dense earth materials are nearer to the top of the canyon. Now...they claim this took millions or billions of years to happen.\nHere is a simple experiement to prove that theory wrong. Take a large jar or clear glass container and fill it with water (simulating the great flood of Noahs time) next fill it with sand, rocks, dirt and other earthly materials of your own choice....shake it all up to make a nice mixture. Within mere minutes you will see that the heavier earthly materials like the rocks and clay will sink to the bottom and the softer less dense materials will remain at the top and all of this will occur within minutes, not years. To me, this simple experiemnt is proof that the earth is not billions of years old and that the great flood that God put on this earth happend only a few thousand years ago, just around the time Jesus walked the earth! Think about it! I personally do believe there is a God, but I believe that scientists are wrong when they contemplate the earths age and structure, God does exist, in what form I do not know, but he does exist in some way and I get the feeling he is pissed off at most of us...So have faith my friend....Scientists are not always right by any means, God walked the earth only a few thousand years ago....not billions like scientists claim.
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The Earth had started to form a solid crust at the age of 700 million years when it was impacted by an object close to the size of Mars.  Chunks of that wound up orbitting Earth, which had to again cool to form a solid crust.  The Moon cooled and became a solid object fairly quickly. but Earth is still molten inside, with the crust broken into a number of large and small pieces called tectonic plates.  The Moon just sits there, but the tectonic plates collide, subduct, grind, smash, and also experience weathering from our atmosphere.  The result is lunar rocks going back well over 3 billion years, while few Earth rocks reach even 2 billion.
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No....In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...Genesis 1:1
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the meteorite and the core of the earth are assumed to both have formed around the same time.
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It becomes rock on the surface of the ocean floor. It is eventually carried further & further away.\n\nSome older rock created by this process has already been "recycled" in the rock cycle; it became molten when it was subducted under continental plates.\n\nAn interesting fact is that as new rock is being created at the Mid Atlantic Ridge, the earth's magnetic field is being recorded right into the rocks. Any time there is a change in the direction of the earth's magnetic field it has been recorded.\n\n:)
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Scientists say that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. The oldest rocks that have been found are 3.8-3.9 billion years old. They actually think the Earth is 4.55 billion years old to be specific. Just to let you know i got it off  a website.
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Precambrian for the Black Hills. That's anything from 542 million years (the start of the Cambrian) and back. The Rockies in Wyoming are Paleozoic to Mesozoic in age. If you want to know specifics then contact the USGS in Wyoming because they would be the people who would know the right answer. \n\nAnd for the record rocks aren't as old as the Earth because they are re-crystallized/partially melted to form new rocks. They are not the same rocks they were before and we pick up more sediments and minerals from cosmic bombardment.
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The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about 4.55 billion years (plus or minus about 1%). This value is derived from several different lines of evidence.\n\nUnfortunately, the age cannot be computed directly from material that is solely from the Earth. There is evidence that energy from the Earth's accumulation caused the surface to be molten. Further, the processes of erosion and crustal recycling have apparently destroyed all of the earliest surface.\n\nThe oldest rocks which have been found so far (on the Earth) date to about 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago (by several radiometric dating methods). Some of these rocks are sedimentary, and include minerals which are themselves as old as 4.1 to 4.2 billion years. Rocks of this age are relatively rare, however rocks that are at least 3.5 billion years in age have been found on North America, Greenland, Australia, Africa, and Asia.\n\nWhile these values do not compute an age for the Earth, they do establish a lower limit (the Earth must be at least as old as any formation on it). This lower limit is at least concordant with the independently derived figure of 4.55 billion years for the Earth's actual age.
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Current models of Solar System formation indicate that all the  solid objects in the solar system (planets, moon, asteroids, etc) formed around the same time.  The oldest, unaltered piece of solid material we have found is about 4.6 billion years old (it is a particular type of meteorite).  So we place the formation of the Earth at the time period.\n\nWe can't find any Earth rocks that old, as earth has experienced far to much volcanic and techtonic activity in the past to preserve any of these original rocks.  We can and do find rocks as old as 3.8 billion years in the northeast portions of Canada, and even older samples have been found in the Australia region.
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According to the Word of God, Adamic mankind has been in existance, in this World as we know it, for about 6000 years.\n\nIt also says that a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day, with the Lord.\n\nSo no one knows how old the earth is. It could be millions of years old. It could also be a little more than 6 thousand.\n\nJOB 38:4\n   4    Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.\n   5    Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?\n   6    Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;\n   7    When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?\n\nTo know more, go here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/