The formation of our earth's atmosphere!
- From: "Gerald L. O'Barr" <globarr@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Mar 2006 13:18:36 -0800
The formation of our earth's atmosphere!
Now I am an old, old man, and I certainly do not
have any expertise in the science of origins. But
for fun, let me go over the formation of our earth as
I have seen and heard it described by others at one
point or another in my long life upon this earth.
What I remember might not be perfect. It might even
be out-of-date. But that is not abnormal. Much of
what I present has to be close to being correct. It
might even be acceptable.
Our earth was very likely formed at a point in
space that had a lot of unorganized matter. Another
word for this would be junk, to include a lot of dust
and even some ice! Even today there are places in
our universe that have so much dust that one cannot
see through it. In such regions of space, some
points have to have more concentration of junk than
other locations, and by the force of gravity, these
concentrated areas begin to grow. Eventually, these
areas become large enough to become actual bodies,
possessing or taking on a spherical shape, etc.
These bodies would initially become very hot due
to the kinetic energy of falling matter, as gravity
attracted all the nearby junk. The 'softening'
(melting) due to this heating, combined with the
force of gravity, would then allow the denser matter
to sink towards the center of the body, and the
lighter elements would be pushed towards the surface.
For our earth, some of the water and gases would have
been pushed to the surface of the earth.
Because of the total temperature of the earth at
this time, there would not be strength for any
mountain to exist. The surface would be extremely
smooth. If there were water at this time, it
certainly would cover the entire surface. Being hot,
places on the surface would be in great turmoil, as
boiling and other hot gases would be rising up
through this water. And initially, if one were on
this surface, the dust still not yet collected could
be such as to prevent there from being any light
reaching this surface. For such conditions, one
would not even be able to view the sun. There would
be no sense of day or night, since the dust around
the earth would make it too dark to detect any
distant image no matter how bright it might have
been.
As the dust began to finally settle out, the view
from the surface of the earth could be described as
first very dark, then as a gray like fog (a deep
space fog, not just a local fog that we experience
today), then eventually an actual distinction between
light and dark (shadows would begin to be formed.)
This cleaning up of the space around us would occur
more and more as the earth reached its final size,
and for the finer particles, a lot of time would then
still be necessary for it to all settle out.
Initially, the biggest and brightest object, such
as the sun, would be able to be seen. Then
eventually the moon might be seen, and last of all,
the small stars might begin to be seen.
The Book of Genesis is an interesting book. Let
us look at the first eight verses.
1) In the beginning, God created the heaven and
the earth.
To me, this is the title to what is going to be
presented, the creation of the heaven and the earth.
And the actual point of the beginning of this
presentation is declared in the next verse.
2) And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And this tells us exactly the point at which the
explanation in Genesis begins. Scientifically
speaking, there was this point of time in which the
earth was without form (no mountains or continents),
and was void of all present surface shape, and had no
light upon its surface, a surface covered with water
(the deep.)
2) . . . And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
And anyone who was there at this time, would
certainly have seen the water churning!
3) And God said, let there be light: and there
was light.
And at some point, this had to occur. The dust
cloud in which the earth was formed had to eventually
start to settle out and allow us a more clear view of
the space around us.
4) And God saw the light, that it was good: and
God divided the light from the darkness.
The ability to have this fog removed to the degree
that actual light and dark shadows were evident would
be important to those who experienced it.
5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness
He called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day.
6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters.
Now the firmament is our atmosphere. And no one
can correct describe the creation of our atmosphere
unless they explain the origin of the oxygen in our
atmosphere. It is the oxygen in our atmosphere that
makes our atmosphere our atmosphere.
And so where did our atmosphere's oxygen come
from? First there was the great deep (verse 2.) The
second thing mentioned in Genesis was light (verse
3.) Once you have water and then light, then you
have what is needed to have our atmosphere! If the
light is of sufficient energy, some of it will
disassociate some of the water into hydrogen and
oxygen. The hydrogen cannot remain in our
atmosphere; it will slowly leak to space. But the
oxygen will remain.
Let us understand this carefully: This process
depends upon the strength of the gravity field at the
surface of the earth and on the thermal dynamics at
the surface. The gravity forces must be strong
enough to hold to the earth most of the oxygen, but
allow most of the hydrogen to escape, for the
temperatures that exist. Our earth has the exact
right amount of gravity and surface temperatures to
allow these things to happen.
And it depends on a few more statistics. To cause
the disassociation we need the right light, and the
presence of water. High in our atmosphere, there is
plenty of the right light available.
Once you have free hydrogen and oxygen gases, the
odds of any hydrogen escaping will depend on the
amount of oxygen present and the amount of lightning
existing that could allow a rejoining of these gases.
On our earth, the percentage of oxygen that exists
is held in a very solid ratio, based upon all these
statistics that have been mentioned. If there is too
little oxygen, then the hydrogen will have greater
odds of escaping before it meets up with an oxygen
atom, allowing this low percent of oxygen to remain
or increase. And if there is too much oxygen, then
the odds are increased that any free hydrogen will
meet up with an oxygen atom before it escapes,
reforms water, and reduces the percentage of oxygen
in the atmosphere.
7) And God made the firmament, and divided the
waters which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the firmament: and it was
so.
8) And God called the firmament Heaven, . . .
So let us be sure we understand what was said: If
you (in verse 6) divide 'waters from waters' on the
molecular level, you will get oxygen and hydrogen.
Then if that part of the water, the hydrogen part,
goes 'above the firmament' (verse 7) (is lost to
space), then you end up having our oxygen atmosphere
sitting upon that part of the water that was not
divided. These words, these thoughts, could not be
more perfect. And this process is still at work
today.
Now I do not find Genesis perfect. They did not
seem to care about the order of things, in terms of
time, but only in the facts. But it is most amazing
that they have so many things so perfect. They start
out with the earth having only one land mass. The
odds are very good that this had to be the way the
first start of continents occurred. The bible then
mentions this one land mass becoming more than one.
It then mentions that the one land mass is to return.
The day should come when a scientific study of
Genesis is made. It will help us in our efforts to
understand the things around us.
Thanks for reading.
Gerald L. O'Barr <globarr...@xxxxxxxxx>
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P.S. The present estimate is that only one percent
of all the water in the mantle of the earth has been
pushed to the surface. This one percent is now
making up all of our present oceans and waters in our
lakes and atmosphere. (And as we now know by reading
this post, this one percent also makes up all the
free oxygen that we find in our atmosphere!)
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