How was the Earth made?

Question

How was the Earth made?

Answer 1

By something much bigger and grander than we could even comprehend!

Answer 2

God made the Earth, pretty much as it is today, last Thursday.  Really.  I looked this up in Wikipedia.  And next Thursday, it's going to happen again.  You won't notice.  God is very good at this.  But that's just what you'd expect from an omniscient, omnipotent, and perfect God.

Why does she recreate the Universe each week?  It's simple.  She's lazy.  It's much easier to create a Universe that is 2 light weeks in diameter, even if you have to create all those photons with just the right energies, going in just the right directions, than it is to create a Universe that is billions of light years in diameter.  Besides, she's impatient.  She doesn't want to wait billions of years to see how it's going to turn out.  And, when it doesn't go quite where she wants it to go, she can fix that next week.

So God invented the Hubble Space Telescope, microwave ovens (thanks be to God!), and created fossils and made used toothbrushes for you to brush your teeth with, and bees to sting you, and computers and such.  Everything.

She didn't farm it out to China where the labor is cheaper.  She's not that lazy.

Answer 3

the scientific theory is after the big bang there was alot of material out there this gathered into nursery's called our Galaxy and others galaxies over time all matter has gravity so it piece by piece pulled together until there was enough mass to create pressure that than started to melt the materials together and created more gravity in witch pulled more materials down to its surface this all occured after our universe slowly cooled down once the earth had been formed cryogenics then took over feeding oxygen into our atmosphere and creating the first signs of life scientist believe this is how we got here and that it was not by the hand of god however i ask the question i can believe this theory but then i believe god still with his hands put the first signs of life that we evolved from. everyone has their theory but i feel it was no accident that earth was just in the right place and the other millions of things that had to occur happened accidental

Answer 4

according to recent scientific theory, when the solar system was basically a whole lot of asteroids and gases and just junk floating around in space...

one big asteroid, or a bunch of small asteroids melded together, they attracted other asteroids and debris to them, so this asteroid cluster just kept getting bigger and bigger

and as it got bigger it drew more debris toward it.

eventually it became big enough that the force of gravity started compressing the rocks and stuff in the middle, and it started to melt

(higher pressure can mean higher temperature)

and then there is a whole history of how scientist believe the earth went through different stages

like how cyanobacteria put oxygen in the atmosphere in such and such an era.

but I don't know the specifics like that

Answer 5

I don't know.

Answer 6

There really is no short answer for this.  After the big bang or "god clapping"  which ever you must say alot of time went by and things collected together like they always do.  Have you ever seen cobwebs?  Soon there was enough matter to call a rock.  Some became suns  and they collected more matter more rocks.  Along time later "Thea" hit the "Earth" the earth kept most of the rock and the rest is called the moon.  more?

Answer 7

In 7 days, of course (simplified short answer)...

Or, consider the following steps (simplified long answer):

1) Some origin of the universe, such as the big bang, that converted pure energy into simple matter, consisting mostly of protons and electrons that bonded into hydrogen.

2) After the hydrogen was formed, the gravitational pull between the hydrogen concentrated large volumes of it into dense clouds.

This process occurred everywhere in the Universe, but we will focus on one occurrence to make the process easier to comprehend.

3) As the cloud masses attracted more matter (hydrogen), the clouds (called nebulae) became more dense, eventually generating enough gravity to fuse the hydrogen atoms together to form helium.  This is the typical beginning of a new star.

4) As the star continued "burning", it continued to attract more matter, making the star denser (heavier).  That caused the helium and hydrogen to continue fusing into heavier and heavier elements, such as carbon, iron, etc.  This process continued for several billion years.

Note that the gravity pulls in to the center of the star, while the nuclear fusion generates explosions that do the opposite.  There is a balance between the nuclear explosions pushing away and the gravity holding it all together.

5) When the star reached its life's end (ie, it ran out of fuel to combine into heavier elements), it had two options: A) The star can collapse into itself and form a dense cooling mass (i.e., neutron star), or B) The star can collapse into itself and induce an explosion that spreads its contents all over the place (i.e., supernova).

A supernova is likely where the building blocks for our planet Earth came from.  Over time, the materials from multiple supernovae would fly through space, gravitationally attracting towards other masses until new nebulous clouds form.  But, these clouds would not be made only of hydrogen, but of other elements including iron, carbon, oxygen, lead, gold, etc.

6) Now, with a new nebula, our solar system was formed.  The hydrogen (still the most abundant element in the cloud) pulled together while other dense eddy currents formed (due to the movements and attractions of materials passing by each other).  A rotating disk of gases and masses was formed that looked like a small galaxy.  The sun formed in the middle (where most matter congregated), while the planets formed from smaller consolidated gravitationally attracted areas.

The Earth formed from that.  Notice that in our solar system, the heavier, rockier planets were formed nearest the sun, while the gasier planets formed farther away.  That is because the heavier, rockier materials were attracted more to the center of mass of the entire system.

Water likely came to the Earth from comets, after the planet was already mostly formed.  The temperature of the Earth is what it is mainly because of our distance from the Sun, and the planet's composition (i.e., atmosphere, oceans, etc.).

Where life came from is still a mystery, but we've only been getting a grasp on all of this for the last few thousand years, with most major breakthroughs in understanding in the last couple centuries.

Note that this really is the simplified version of what happened, but it should give you a good idea of the process that occurs to create planets, such as this great one.

Answer 8

There are several suggestions -- there are religious answers ("and God created..."), and non-religious answers ("first there was this big bang...").  Both kinds have many details omitted.  I suspect that we'll come to know more as time goes by.  

Most current theories involve condensation of a disk of dust that surrounded the sun into planets... rocky material in the smaller planets closer to the sun, and gaseous material in the larger, outer planets.  This does not well handle the rocky objects like Pluto, Charon and other Kupier Belt objects out there, but ...

Over time, this material which was circling the sun began to collect due to gravitational force, and as it accumulated, its force of collapse heated the materials (the core of the earth is still considered to be molten metallic material).

Hope this gives you some insight to what many think.

Answer 9

ahhh....it all started when matter condensed itself into a hot ball. the ball cooled and there was earth. several billion years ago.

Answer 10

god

Answer 11

A few billion years there was a huge gas cloud. in the center it got really hot and created the sun. The rest of the gas formed the planets. And walla Earth!

Answer 12

By the same process that created the rest of the planets and the sun: accretion.  Clouds of materials from many early supernovae condensed into an accretion disk, probably because of the shockwave of a nearby supernovae.  The disk, enlarged at the center, contracted.  Particles in the disk ran into each other and formed clumps.  clumps ran into larger clumps and formed super clumps...  Eventually the sun formed at the center since by contracting a body that size becomes very hot at the center.  Hydrogen fusion reactions began and the sun began to shine.  Outwards from the sun clumps of matter continued to get bigger.  Eventually the planets as we know them were complete.  When the sun ignited, most of the leftover stuff in the inner system that hadn't been attracted to a planet, was swept out of the system by the strong solar wind called the T-Tauri wind.  Most of this matter was picked up by the outer planets, or it was swept into the Kuyper belt or Oort Cloud.  Its  a lot more complex than that, but that's the basics.

Answer 13

By God.

Answer 14

Read Genesis