There are many theories on the formation of the earth, but none as succinct as the creation of the universe as told to Moses, in the first book of the Bible, by the Creator Himself.

Science using various theories and models think Chondrites are evidence of a period when the sun was being born and the great cloud of mineral dust around it was gathering into bodies, as large across as a few kilometers, called planetesimals. They were hot, they bumped together, and eventually grew into small planets. At that point their great heat melted all the material, wiping out the signs of its earlier history. Chondrites escaped that melting and survived to the present day, mostly in the asteroid belt.

Unbelievable! They get all that out of a small group of meteorites that was found in Algeria in 1999.

Read this fable!

Long, long ago (some 5 billion years ago) in a perfectly ordinary place in the galaxy, a supernova exploded, pushing a lot of its heavy-element wreckage into a nearby cloud of hydrogen gas and interstellar dust. The mixture grew hot and compressed under its own gravity, and at its center a new star began to form. Around it swirled a disk of the same material, which grew white-hot from the great compressive forces. That new star became our Sun, and the glowing disk gave rise to Earth and its sister planets.

While the Sun grew in size and energy, beginning to ignite its nuclear fires, the hot disk slowly cooled. This took millions of years. During that time, the components of the disk began to freeze out into small dust-size grains. Iron metal and compounds of silicon, magnesium, aluminum, and oxygen came out first in that fiery setting. Bits of these are preserved in chondrite meteorites. Slowly these grains settled together and collected into clumps, then chunks, then boulders and finally bodies large enough to exert their own gravity—planetesimals. This whole process is rather well modeled by scientists like those at the Planetary Research Institute.

As time went by, planetesimals grew by collision with other bodies, and as their mass grew larger, the energies involved did too. By the time they reached a hundred kilometers or so in size, planetesimal collisions produced a lot of outright melting and vaporization, and the materials—which we can confidently call rocks and iron metal—began to sort themselves out. The dense iron settled in the center and the lighter rock separated into a mantle around the iron, in a miniature of Earth and the other inner planets today. Planetologists call this differentiation, and it is documented not only for the planets, but also for most of the large moons and the largest asteroids (from which come iron meteorites). The asteroids Ceres, Pallas and Vesta survive from that time, miniature planets.
At some point during this time, the Sun ignited. Although the Sun was only about two-thirds as bright as it is today, the process of ignition (the so-called T-Tauri phase) was energetic enough to blow away most of the gaseous part of the protoplanetary disk. The chunks, boulders, and planetesimals left behind continued to collect into a handful of large, stable bodies in well-spaced orbits.

Earth was the third one of these, counting outward from the Sun. We know that the process of accumulation was violent and spectacular, because the smaller pieces left huge craters on the larger ones.

At one point early in this process a very large planetesimal struck Earth an off-center blow and sprayed much of Earth’s rocky mantle into space. The planet got most of it back after a period of time, but some of it collected into a second planetesimal circling Earth. It’s still there—it’s the Moon. Since this theory took center stage in the mid-1980s, it has become everyone’s favorite. And as geophysicist Don Anderson once explained, “The objection that such an event would be extremely rare is actually a point in its favor, since the Moon is unique.”

The oldest surviving rocks on Earth were formed some 600 million years after Earth first formed. So all of the activity of Earth’s birth was already ancient history (except for a possible “late bombardment” of the last stray planetesimals around 4 billion years ago). The oldest rocks, dated by the uranium-lead method as about 3.96 billion years old, show that there were volcanoes, continents, oceans, crustal plates, and life on Earth in those days. While the eons that followed were full of strange stories and far-reaching changes, the Earth had taken on its basic structure long before.

And we live here happily ever after! Bravo, great theory! But it is only a theory.

What if the the earth was created rather than formed and it was done by the spoken Word of the Creator?

What evidence does science use that shows a slow formation over eons? Rocks? No, rocks show a fast creation.

Polonium 218 has been considered, by the scientific world, a daughter element of the natural decay of uranium, but through works of Dr. Robert Gentry and other researchers, polonium halos have been found in mica and fluorite without evidence of parents – present in the original granite from the very beginning. Also, and most significantly, polonium halos should not exist because of their extremely short half-lives.  Polonium 218 has a half-life of only three (3) minutes.

What about other heavenly bodies? What about comets? No, if comets are assumed to be roughly about the same age as the solar system than the effects of orbiting the sun would have totally dissipated them in about 10,000 years. Careful studies indicate that a small part of the comets mass is “boiled off” each time it orbits the sun.

There are many more theory busters and I will get into more next time when I write about the preparation of the earth for mankind. But the existence of God is the first obstacle one must overcome.

When asked if God exists, Dr. Richard Lewontin, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University, put it like this: “It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door” (Richard Lewontin, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997, p. 28).

We first have to deal with our philosophical predispositions. If, for example, you am already dedicated to the philosophical idea that nothing can exist outside of the natural realm (i.e. there can be no supernatural God), no amount of evidence could convince you otherwise. In other words if a person does or doesn’t believe in God dtermines their bias on evidences presented.

Science believes that there is evidence to indicate that the universe had a beginning. They are on the same page as Christians.

Science theorizes that our universe is thought to have begun as an infinitesimally small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense, something – a singularity. Where did it come from? They don’t know. Why did it appear? They don’t know. What is a singularity? It is thought to be zones which defy their current understanding of physics. They are thought to exist at the core of “black holes.”
Well that explains it all!

Christians believe that God said “Let there be light.” And that is the evidence that science is looking for. That is where that infinitely small immeasurable hot dense light came from. Science believes that before this incident, there was NOTHING, not even atoms. Not even space… And we all no that nothing comes from nor can be made from nothing. Therefore we have to believe that there is something. He is the God of the Bible!

Furthermore, the Big Bang theory is clearly in contradiction to the second rule of Thermodynamics. The rule explains entropy, the unavoidable deterioration and disorganization during time, EXCEPT if there is help of some ‘energy-information-supply’ that can stop the negative deterioration process. The Big Bang theory describes just the opposite scenario, namely, the order in the universe was constantly increasing without any supplement of directed energy. Or was it?.

St. Thomas Aquinas formulated five Ways which provide evidence for God through observation of design:

• First Way – The Argument From Motion: The universe is constantly changing, but this means there also must be an Unmoved Mover who set the first motion, which is God. For example, a forest has the potentiality to burn, but it cannot burn until it is actualised by a spark.
• Second Way – Causation Of Existence: Nothing creates itself, everything has a previous cause to have been created, which means there must be an Uncaused First Cause who began the chain of existence for all things, which is God. For example, there is an arrow that is seen in flight. It is reasonable to assume that the arrow must have been fired by someone or something for it to be in flight.
• Third Way – Contingent and Necessary Objects: A contingent being is an object that can not exist without a necessary being causing its existence. Aquinas believed that the existence of contingent beings would ultimately necessitate a being which must exist for all of the contingent beings to exist, which is God. Necessary beings have no cause other than themselves.
• Fourth Way – The Argument From Degrees And Perfection: This Way analyses the quality of things. For example, someone may say that of two marble sculptures one is more beautiful than the other. So for these two objects, one has a greater degree of beauty than the next. referred to as degrees or gradation of a quality. From this fact Aquinas concluded that for any given quality like goodness, beauty and knowledge, there must be a perfect standard by which all such qualities are measured, which is God.
• Fifth Way – The Argument From Intelligent Design: This Way analyses the universe and the order of nature. Common sense tells us that the universe works with perfect physical laws, and a harmony of nature and life which requires an intelligent designer, which is God.

Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. verse 2. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. John 1:3 states that Jesus was actively and directly involved in the creation process and HE was here on earth as MAN to witness to that effect.

There could very well be a gap of thousands, millions even billions of years, as we know time, between verses 1 and 2. A time when God created the angels, the sons of God. God created angels in a hierarchy of thrones, of dominions, of principalities, of powers. Col 1:16. But if science doesn’t believe in a God they can’t see, maybe they don’t believe in angels or atoms either.

When you look at all of God’s handiwork, do you see the finished product or the millions of invisible atoms making up the visible. Col 1:16

Throne angels called seraphim in Isaiah 6. Dominions are probably cherabim like those set over the entrance to the Garden of Eden. Principalities is the domain of princes and that would be Michael in charge of the army of heaven. Lucifer in charge of entertainment. Gabriel in charge of communications. Then there is the powers or the ministering angels under the princes.

When Lucifer fell and took one third of the hosts with him, more because of the hierarchy rather than all being prideful, he was cast from heaven but apparently able to attend meetings according to Job.

The cast-out angels kept the same hierarchy and even some given lower status, simply as rulers of darkness and spiritual hosts of wickedness. Or this could also be an all inclusive description of the prince of darkness and his powers. (Eph 6:12)

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The heaven being a vast empty space and the earth being covered with water standing out in it. All created from nothing by an omnipotent God. The God of the Bible. Amen!

Next – Preparing the Universe for Life

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