The Creation Of The Earth

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The creation of the earth is a unique concept that man has been grappling to understand, for many years. Luckily over hundreds of years man has developed a theory that explains that complexing order of events. According to science approximately 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was a huge cloud of star dust and gas this was known as a solar nebula. At some point in that cloud, gravity collapsed the material that contained it into itself. This material then started to spin and it would eventually form into the sun in the center of the nebula. As the sun began to rise and form, the remaining material in the solar system began to clump together. The small particles came together to form larger particles, they were drawn closer to the …show more content…

I have learned how this earth was created and the forces behind every evolution and development of this amazing earth. Even the ideas of plate tectonics helped me gain the knowledge of how the earth is a dynamic object always subject to change. Interestingly enough, I believed if I learned these principles it would lessen my faith, but as I am constantly applying the concept that science and faith are both forms of truth. I could see a faint correlation between the creation of the universe and the creation account in the bible. God separated light from the darkness, in the beginning the sun was created, and that light that came did split the darkness. The separation of land and water is mentioned in the bible and also in the theory of the creation of the universe. I can see both of them working together because the bible is very vague in its details of the creation, maybe the theory is a possible understanding of how God did it all, at least that is what I believe. Another interesting concept is the age of the earth. Thanks to radiometric dating humanity was able to have a more approximate age for the earth. Around 4.6 billion years was that conclusion. The coolest part is scientist’s ability to use the world around them and the elements they find to date the earth and other time periods. From meteorites to the half-life of uranium, men could make predictions

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