posted July 16, 2023 06:23 AM            

The question is which came first air or water... Science answer:

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The surface was molten. As Earth cooled, an atmosphere formed mainly from gases spewed from volcanoes. It included hydrogen sulfide, methane, and ten to 200 times as much carbon dioxide as today’s atmosphere. After about half a billion years, Earth’s surface cooled and solidified enough for water to collect on it.
http://forces.si.edu/atmosphere/02_02_01.html

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So atmosphere before the oceans

posted July 16, 2023 03:47 PM            

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Scientists believe that the formation of the oceans did not occur until long after the earth was originally formed. On top of this, they do not believe that they formed all at once; rather, it took millions of years.

Researchers think that the oceans formed as a result of a process known as “degassing.” When the earth was first formed, its temperature was well above the boiling point for water. Because of this, there was no liquid water on earth. Instead, all water was in the form of a gas.

Anyway, this gas stayed in the earth’s atmosphere for millions of years, as it took a long time for the earth to finally cool down and reach a temperature below the boiling point. When it did finally hit below the boiling point, something pretty cool happened next.

It rained, and we mean it really rained. It rained for centuries: almost every ounce of water you can see on the surface of the earth had to fall from the sky.

Pretty cool, right?

Another theory that some researchers have is that carbonaceous chondrites, which is essentially a meteorite that holds a lot of water, kept pelting into the surface of the earth after it cooled down. This distributed water in large amounts to the earth, which eventually made up the oceans. http://www.americanoceans.org/facts/how-did-oceans-form/

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posted July 22, 2023 07:30 PM            

Thought provoking thread!

In my alchemy lessons via a self learn-ed alchemy teacher, long story but she knows a lot of the right people. She explains how we people and I surmise, the living organisms of all kind of biology- come from the waters.
So all that rain was needed to seed this plantation, otherwise known as "earth".

With the layers of the rock, I feel the "air" layer is nearby the etheric realm we call "heaven" (certain religions) or a synonymous name, whitch is more a portal and unreachable with tangible gear or flesh bodies. I have heard some deep thinkers say birds do get to the kingdom we may refer to as Heaven realmed.
Yet I'm not versed upon biblical quotes but I believe there are 7 levels of heaven and I know I have read of third.

posted July 22, 2023 09:27 PM            

The Sahara has a cycle of being wet and dry. Obviously, we're on the dry cycle. But they find whale bones there, and also buried runs that would mark a river from before recorded human history.

I've always wondered what I'd do if I met a time traveler who somehow took me to Easter Island, and upon seeing the heads, shouted (so like that guy in Planets of the Apes discovering the top of the statue of liberty sticking out of the sand), "YOU BLEW IT UP!"

Other things I could go into regarding our planet and our species.

I'm not surprised that some who study Earth's geophysics experience an existential crisis. Earth has had a relatively little time (though much longer than recorded history) in which our civilization is possible, and even if we had no impact on the environment (say stay stone age), we'd probably only have a few thousand left at most. And that assumes no major astronomical or geological (or human) disasters that are all too possible. Here's one such disaster that impacted the world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3YTfhJmh1I&t=26s&ab_channel=WeirdHistory

Please note, that is a BRIEF summary. Despite that the main volcanic explosion was believed to be as far north as Iceland, it impacted the southern hemisphere both directly and indirectly. And we have other volcanoes that are overdue to blow up big like that.

posted July 24, 2023 10:47 PM            

@PixieJane that's very informative! Thank you.
"Earth has had a relatively little time (though much longer than recorded history) in which our civilization is possible"

That's one of the reasons im team Intelligent Design, same applies to the universe the relatively little time it has as if it was precalculated to work as efficiently as possible.

posted August 19, 2023 12:29 AM            

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Originally posted by GoldenSword:
"Earth has had a relatively little time (though much longer than recorded history) in which our civilization is possible"

That's one of the reasons im team Intelligent Design

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Fine-tuned universe http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe

posted August 19, 2023 07:46 AM            

Can’t wait to get off work today, curl up, and add some thoughts/ read the replies. (: