most of the earth.....?

Question

is made of water....if god did not do this....what did...dont say it was a rainstorm.......or melted ice...what do you think....

Answer 1

And God said . . . .

Answer 2

Actually, the earth has virtually no water.

It may cover more than two thirds the surface, but only to a depth of 7km.

The idea that water was delivered by comets is popular at the moment but I don't really think this is likely or there'd be a lot of it hidden away on the moon and evidence of it in the rocks from there.

Water was almost certainly 'cracked' from more mundane rocks in the crust. When heated, they released their water, just as copper sulphate does in the lab when you heat it.

But really, less than, 1/100th of 1% of the earth is water. It's pretty low.

This explanation, of course, does not preclude God as the ultimate cause of it all. Many scientists are quite happy to accept that...including Einstein.

Answer 3

Well it wasn't the tooth fairy that much I know.
It is now clear from measurements of the D/H ratio and Ar content of comets that no more than 15% of the Earth’s water can have been added to the Earth at the end of accretion. Carbonaceous chondritic material containing up to 10 wt % water (CI chondrites) has also been proposed as the source of the Earth’s water. However, mass balance indicates that delivery of sufficient carbonaceous material to account for the minimum mass of water in the Earth, one Earth ocean mass, is inconsistent with the mass of the "late veneer" thought to be responsible for the highly siderophile elements in the Earth’s mantle. The Os isotopic ratio of the Earth’s Primitive Upper Mantle (PUM) is distinct from that in carbonaceous chondrites, but is consistent with ordinary chondrites. Ordinary chondrites, however, are low in water and cannot account for even the minimum Earth water budget if they are also responsible for the late veneer. The Mg/Si ratio of PUM is high compared enstatite, ordinary, and carbonaceous chondrites, leading some workers to propose sequestering Si in the lower mantle or core. There is, however, a continuum of planetary materials increasing in Mg/Si and Al/Si ratios in the order enstatite, ordinary, carbonaceous chondrites, PUM. If the upper mantle and the lower mantle have the same composition, then an interpretation is that the Earth was made of primitive materials with its current characteristics. Taken together, these observations lead to the obvious conclusion that no existing form of primitive material is similar to Earth mantle material, that Earth accreted "wet", and that the "building blocks" of Earth are "Earth chondrite" or "Earth achondrite", and that the "late veneer" is "Earth veneer". All of these materials have been incorporated in Earth or ejected into the Sun or out of the inner solar system

Answer 4

About 70% is covered with water, and the water, like the rest of the substances of the earth, accumulated from a nebula about 4.6 billion years ago. Water is lighter than rock substances, so most of the water wound up at the top of the pile. Fortunately for us, the substances of rock are not all of the same density, so some rock projects above the ocean water to create the continents on which we live. (God had nothing to do with it.)

Answer 5

well, based on the knowledge that the universe is full of gas and water (water being h2o, which can be in a gaseous form) the formation of water through a chemical reaction is only completely natural and expected. hydrogen and oxygen from the dense core of the earth combined for millions if not billions of years and covered the planet in water. this accounts for the atmosphere too. but i'm not a scientist.

Answer 6

Earth formed as part of the birth of the solar system: what eventually became the solar system initially existed as a large, rotating cloud of dust, rocks, and gas. It was composed of hydrogen and helium produced in the Big Bang, as well as heavier elements ejected by supernova explosions. Then, about 4.6 billion years ago, it's assumed a nearby star became a supernova. The explosion sent a shock wave through the solar nebula, causing it to implode.
This changed when Earth was about 40% its present radius, and gravitational attraction allowed the retention of an atmosphere which included water. Temperatures plummeted and the crust of the planet was accumulated on a solid surface, with areas melted by large impacts on the scale of decades to hundreds of years between impact. Large impacts would have caused localized melting and partial differentiation, with some lighter elements on the surface or released to the moist atmosphere.
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The surface cooled quickly, forming the solid crust within 150 million years . From 4 to 3.8 billion years ago, Earth underwent a period of heavy asteroidal bombardment. Steam escaped from the crust while more gases were released by volcanoes, completing the second atmosphere. Additional water was imported by bolide collisions, probably from asteroids ejected from the outer asteroid belt under the influence of Jupiter's gravity. The planet cooled. Clouds formed. Rain gave rise to the oceans within 750 million years (3.8 billion years ago), but probably earlier. (Recent evidence suggests the oceans may have begun forming by 4.2 billion years ago)

Answer 7

Water was formed on the earth millions of years ago by physical and chemical action due to heat and pressure on the components of the earth.

The amount of water in and on the earth never changes in quantity, only in phase... Ice, Water, Steam.

Answer 8

obviously not god!!!!
by rain from the Earth's atmosphere
honestly i don't believe that god created anyone or anything!
Why did people think the earth was flat??
in the past churches have been against scietific discoveries because it goes agains what "god" says or what's in the bible
if you want examples let me know!! and i'll be happy to give you some!!
And if you look on a map you can see that the continents all fit together!!ever heard of pangea?

Answer 9

rocks colliding together?? dont know never paid that much attention to the discovery channel or horizon lol. Well least I know that because of heat or whatever micro-organisms started to grow, and algae which made the earth, and of course gasses started mixing together which made our atmosphere... And ps without water probs not much of that would of happened...
I apoligise to my elders, that was terrible wasn't it? least I tried but don't take my word for it lol
I'll get more ed under my belt first, then I'll give you my words of wisdom when Ive grown up lmao

Answer 10

Actually very little is water when you consider all of earth. Only 319 Million cubic miles, and it seems to have come via comets crashing into earth (which is still happening!)

Answer 11

most of the earth is not water. most of it is molten iron (in the earth's core). The surface area of the earth is mostly covered in water.

water forms from oxygen and hydrogen when the pressure and temperature are what they are on the earth's surface. that's just a law of physics.