About 4.5 billion years ago, the sun formed from a ball of gas left over from a previous supernova. Around the sun was a disk of dust and gas that then accreted into the planets. A lot of the more volatile elements (lighter) were (are) easily moved by solar wind (radiation can push particles with time), removing them to the outer regions of the disk, and then forming the gas giants (made of hydrogen, helium etc..). The less-volatile (refractory) elements (silica, iron, nickel etc..) remained closer to the sun and formed the rocky planets, including earth.
Over time, the denser elements within the earth (iron, nickel) sunk to the core, causing massive amounts of frictional heating, and keeping the earth hot for millions of years. This process seperated the earth into a solid nickel-iron core, an outer liquid nickel-iron core, a iron-magnesium-silicate mantle and a silicate-rich crust.
Over millenia, convectional heating within the earth (as a product of decay of radioactive elements and pressure) has exerted an effect on the crust above, moving tectonic plates, forming oceans and ocean islands like Hawai'i.
Ok, thats about as much as I've got time for. If you want to know more I'd recommend a book called 'How to build a habitable planet' by Broeker. I sincerely hope you don't listen to the zealots who would have you believe hypotheses with no grounding in science of any kind.
2006-07-07 01:23:30
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answered by Anonymous
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Only idiots would claim that God created the world.
I like Stephen Hawking's answer the best. He says that the Universe didn't need to be created. He explains it exactly what he means by that in his book "A Brief History of Time".
When someone says "God did this, blah blah blah...", they are essentially professing their own ignorance. No real scientist would ever be caught using God as an explanation for anything.
2006-07-07 08:20:20
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answered by Anonymous
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God created the world .
but all religions have different gods or holy beings so there are many versions as to how it was created but accordin to the catholics which is my religion, the world was created by the one god and he took 6 days to complete it on which he rested on the seventh day
2006-07-07 07:59:19
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answered by Anonymous
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Origin and history of the name
In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is "age or life of man"
History
The history of the world is a reference to human history, which is thought to begin 3 Mya, when the first humans are thought to have appeared. Writing developed about 8,600 years ago, in four independent locations, and marked the end of pre-history.
for the whole information on the history click on the below link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_world
2006-07-07 08:31:53
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answered by Anonymous
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I believe that God formed the earth (and universe) in spirit... he then sent Jesus Christ to create everything Physically...as it was spiritually.
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John 1:
1. In the beginning was the Word , and the Word was with God , and the Word was God
2. The same was in the beginning with God.
3. All things were made by him ; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
2006-07-07 08:18:17
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answered by ♥Tom♥ 6
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The Earth was created by accretion of material in an elliptical orbit around the Sun about four and a half billion years ago.
Could the God people please go to the social-science categories? This category is about geology, not creationism.
2006-07-07 08:00:37
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answered by me 5
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The world is created the cosmic rays and these was spinning too fast, the cosmic collided to another cosmic rays, it forms planets
2006-07-07 08:46:30
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answered by Anonymous
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Some say God, but that is the "who", not the "how". None of the people who have answered were there, so they do not know "how" with certainty, only with speculation. The big bang theory has merit:
2006-07-07 08:52:34
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answered by _Bogie_ 4
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Basically, from gas and dust shortly after the sun was formed. See the link below.
2006-07-07 08:03:47
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answered by mb5_ca 3
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well god couldent just create a big planet out of nowere so wat i wrecon is that he used his powers to move a biger planet and hit a little planet witch had life then he new that the life on the small planet woud move around the new planet and from then he just let evolution take its course think about it it makes alot of senceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
2006-07-07 08:02:26
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answered by Anonymous
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