how does it make sense that the world just formed from dust?
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The theory in question is called Nebular Theory, and while (like much of modern science) it is only a theory, it is a theory based on solid evidence and calculus, rather than educated guesswork. While nebular theory is difficult to compress into a single paragraph for easy explanation, suffice it to say that solar nebulae comprised of a sun surrounded by a cloud of particles can be observed in space; and that these clouds tend to condense into solid masses and protoplanets, due to the natural gravity of the component particles.
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dude educate your self before you make a broad statement like that. please dont be ignorant. in my opinion is it doesn't exist. because think about it we are coming out of an ice age. it makes sense doesn't it? fact: there have been ice ages. fact: there is a lot of ice in ice ages. so if you know about water then you know the same amount of it is here that was here when the earth began so literally it is dinosaurs piss. well during an ice age lots of stuff is covered in water/ice ( i know i live in Minnesota and it is known that it was fully covered with ice.). so where is all the water? in ice bergs, glaciers, etc. so it would make sense that to leave an ice age most things would melt right? so they are still melting they will finish melting and cover parts of the world, then it will slowly freeze causing an ice age. why would humans make that big of a difference? we are insignificant to the world.(everyone in the world could fit in Texas and it would only be as densely populated as NY city). so our vehicles and combustible engines couldn't have that big of an effect. but you say "what about the ozone thinning?" well i am not saying it hasn't but it was because of the CFC's(chloral floral carbons) which broke up the ozone by attaching to ozone molecules. but the CFC's are no longer around. the ozone is healing itself as it is meant too. their was no real hole only a thinning which is also bad. but now it is closing up and returning to normal. if you think that the co2 we produced cant be good well think about it it isn't that much and while the earth was cooling after being created it released tons of co2. so what people will notice in the next 1-9000 years is it will warm up but in that time it will also cool down and eventually there will be an ice age. just because the great human race is here doesn't mean that the earth will stop having ice ages as it has done by its self for billions of years. think about it. am i a genius or what i mean i just looked at what has happened in history wow who would have thought history would repeat its self
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It is a myth....a bedtime story.  The Earth was formed over millions of years.
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In the physical sense, it has not as it is a sphere.\n\nIn a time frame...\nOur world began with the first sign of life.\nAnd it will die when something in the Universe collide with it.\nIn the meantime, humanity will be wiped out by one thing or another, pretty much like the dinausors.\nAnd another race will be born after that. Not necessarily human but an improvement on us... humans who could not get it right.\n\nFor the believers...\nGOD did stuff up twice.\nHopefully, he'll get it right the third time.
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The matter that made up the sun and planets existed at one time as a very large disk. As the matter clumped together, it was already on the same plane. That's the theory, anyway.
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It goes back to when the solar system was formed.  The sun (and the planets, for that matter) were formed when a gigantic cloud of gas and dust collapsed.  When that cloud collapsed, it had something called 'angular momentum', which really just means that it was spinning a little bit.  When a large, slowly spinning thing collapses to something smaller, the rate of rotation speeds up (think about an ice skater that pulls her arms in...she spins up!).  Anyway, so now we have all this gas and dust in a disk that's orbiting the new Sun.  The dust eventually forms into planets.  As the dust collapses into new planets, the same thing happens, and the planets start spinning themselves.  So basically, the earth and moon and whatnot spin because of angular momentum.  I hope this made sense/helped!
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heres the deal.\nevolution only shows what MIGHT have happened if everything DID happen by RANDOM CHANCE. the chance of one protien molicual forming by random chance is 1/10^65.\nthats a small number.\nand thats only 1 simple molicule- not to metion the hundreds of other more complex ones.\nwould you believe me if I told you I saw a tornado go through a junk yard and randomly put to gether a shiny red caddy?every little detail from the headlights to the liscens plate?perfectly? probably not.\nbut thats what evolution is-- something happened randomly and put together this perfectly running,accuatly designed planet so that if 1 thing were to be off by more then 5 degrees life would end?\n\nand another thing--evolution doesnt show how the universe started.AND there is no proof that the universe is expanding(supporting the big bang theory).there is no way to show the stars and galexies are moving away from each other, is there?\nevolution just doesnt make logical sence because according to it, the universe has just been exploding and contracting for all of time and it did not have a beginning or end, which everything has to have.\nif we looked at how the Bible tells us, it would make a lil more sence.it says God created everything (intellegent design) INCLUDING TIME.He created all the dimentions and banned us to them to see if we would trust Him or not.\nand the Bible says clearly "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" it doesnt say He might have, or there is some proof that, or there is a possibility He could hev, it says He DID.and if you dont belive the Bible, think about this--it say that Gods word (the Bible) will last forever... and so far it is the oldest most sold book of history, not to mention the most prooven.\nspeaking of proof, ever wondered why there seems to be no proof of God? chck this out.\nMatthew 16:4 (New International Version)\nNew International Version (NIV)\nCopyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society\n\n    \n4A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah." Jesus then left them and went away.\n\nproof enough?\n\nand one more thing-- if you call someone names to try to make them and their ideas look less then you, it obviously means that you are trying to cover up something... such as your stubborness to your disprooves hypothosis' that YOU want to believe.\n\nAnd when you die and God says,"I dont know you" just remember i tried to warned you.\n\n\nfoot note to dvdi14-- thats not evolution.same thign with the so called moth evolution--there was smog in englend which darkend the trees so the whit moths showed up better an got eaten more and the brown moths were camoflaged.
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The theory states that life on Earth was "seeded" by life carried in by a meteor.  In order to have any support at all, we would have to discover life outside the Earth, and show that its related in some way to life here.  Since life outside the Earth hasnt even been discovered yet, there is no basis whatsoever to support this idea.
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The earth came into existence by some as yet undetermined process, the most likely of which was a "big bang" whereby all existing planets and solar systems began to form into their current transitory states. During that process, animal life began to form on the earth, by yet another unknown process. The earth is currently in a state of transition that will eventually result in its return to the previous unknown condition that resulted in the "big bang."\n\n\n\nNow send me $5 or I'll put a curse on you.
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I believe the poetic analogy sought here is "a dream."\n\nHowever, I have no clue why this question appears under "Earth Sciences & Geology."\n\nHope this helps!
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It sounds like a world in the book "wrinkle in time" where the world is controlled by "IT." Divirsity is good because ideas pop up faster. And i do not believe god created the earth. Everything has a scientific explanation, but i thing god created the big bang.
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This is just like that watch question right? Well there is a possibility that the perfectly polished rock got perfectly polished by random unintentional events. The divine polisher is therefore time. But then maybe the rock in reality is not actually beautifully polished but we perceive it that way, because of the limitations of the human mind. And maybe when we say that the universe is complex and that complex things need a craetor, maybe it is not complex, we just perceive it that way. There is no ultimately creator.
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1.) The Earth and moon formed together at the birth of the solar system.\n\n2.) So-called "fission" theory; the moon just sort of randomly split off from the Earth over their history.\n\n3.) The Earth's gravity captured it as it passed through from somewhere else.\n\n& last, the theory most astronomers today support:\n\n4.) A large object collided with the Earth in its early times, sending debris flying into space, which would eventually coalesce to form the moon.
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The best theory that I've heard is that there was originally another moon around Mars, or a sister planet to it. This moon (or planet) collided with Earth and shattered, thus creating the asteroid belt. This theory has been attached to the theory of a single original continent, with the collision breaking apart the single land mass into multiple continents. It also is used to explain the tilt on the Earth's axis, and some Bible scholars believe it triggered the flood (of Noah).
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Look up "disk accretion", a popular theory about the formation of our solar system.  This theory explains that as the cloud of dust and gas that formed our system was condensing, it's rotational motion caused an effect similar to centrifugal force which flattened the spinning cloud into a spinning disk.  \n\nI should note that the system isn't exactly flat, a couple of the outer planets have taken on orbits that are quite askew to the disk that the inner planets are aligned with.\n\nThe following web site has some simplified explanations of solar system formation:\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/formation.html\n\nand more in-depth info at:\nhttp://www.dtm.ciw.edu/akir/Seminar/seminar.html
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All the planets and the sun formed about 5-billion years ago within a huge cloud of interstellar gas and dust. Some regions of this cloud were more dense than others, and it's there that mutual gravitation formed the material into spherical objects that continued to grow as more material was drawn in to each. One of those clumps of material became our sun, and the others grew into the earth and other planets.\n\nGod should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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how do you think the earth was created? Or you?