A question for atheists?

Question

This is not a flame, a troll, or revenge. Also, people of any religion, don't flame on other people's religions when answering my question please, have respect.
Now, onto the question, I haven't read the big bang theory, but i have heard a summary of it, and basically, earth and the rest of our solar system was created from the debri of a big bang, or exploding star (i think), and i dunno, somehow created earth. Anyways, in the making of earth bacteria forms and evolves and whatnot, and eventually after who knows how long makes ancient primeval life.
But my question is, where did the water come from? I mean, water is, in my opinion the perfect element for earth. It perfectly fits the temperature of earth, to create a never ending cycle. This, in my opinion is why i think that there is a god. Please, i am sorry if i made some mistakes in the big bang theory. So please, correct me if i am wrong, that is the nature in which asked this question: for you to explain your theory.

Mmmk, stop with the answers saying water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen please... I think i got the point in the third grade. The question was not: What is water, the question is: How did water get on earth. And even though i said to have respect for other religions and beliefs, people are still not doing so, so please, if you cant say anying without saying something negative, dont.

Answer 1

It is believed that water reached the earth through comets, which are mostly ice. Way out beyond the planets is the Oort cloud, a sperical cloud of millions of comets around the Sun. Mostly they stay there, quite inert. Due to the density of water that was where they condensed when the Universe formed.

As the galaxy turns the Sun bobs up and down like a porpoise above one of the spiral arms. Each 'bob' takes 65-70 million years. But when this happens, other bodies enter the Solar System... large floating planet-size bodies. They loop around the Sun until they are thrown out of the Solar System again or crash into the Sun, and sometimes they drag comets with them.

It was one of these events which lead to the extinction of the dinosaurs when a comet or asteroid hit the earth about 65 million years ago, leaving the sub-sea Chixalub crater in Mexico. There have also been many other great extinctions of the past co-inciding with these dates, including the Cambrian. There was another major event about 12,000 years ago which may have given rise to the story of the Flood, although the flood could not have been global. With the amount of asteroids and comets whirling around the Soar System, we are still in a 'danger period' and will continue to be for probably more than a million years.

To answer your question, the water came from hydrogen and oxygen after the Big Bang, which reacted and formed the water, which condensed where it did... around the outskirts of the Solar System in the form of comets. You might say God guided it to earth, I say we just got lucky. I'm not going to argue.

Sorry I don't know my way around the Internet well enough to provide links, but many astronomy magazines are available from your local newsagent, which will confirm this or advance other expanations, because as you know people will tend to disagree. This particular topic is discussed very frequently. Good luck.

Answer 2

1) This is a science question, and asking it here in R&S makes us think you're not really interested in an answer. But I'll bite anyway.

2) The big bang was not an explosion. It was an expansion. For the details, look it up - it's too much to summarize here. But nothing just popped out of it - the big bang was 13.7 billion years ago, and the Earth only formed 4.5 billion years ago. That's billions of years of chemical evolution in between.

3) Life on Earth started 3.5 billion years ago - another billion after the Earth formed. It wasn't there to start with.

4) Water, chemically speaking, is found everywhere in the universe that we look. It's just hydrogen and oxygen. It forms naturally. The hydrogen has been around since 10,000 years after the big bang, and oxygen and other elements formed inside early massive stars that then exploded, seeding the universe with more complex elements.

5) Yep, water is useful. But we've evolved to make use of it since it's here - it wasn't put here to serve us. It's been here a billion years longer than any life has, after all.

Answer 3

Water can be formed by the right conditions and Hydrogen bonds with Oxygen both elements that can be found all over earth. The primitive life survived in the water because of earths distance from the sun. farther and it would be to cold, closer and it would be to hot. The big bang theory gives us all this but all that matterial from the big bang had to come from somewhere, science hasn't proven where that explosion came from and thus there may be a god, The creation of the universe is abreaviated in the bible as well as other texts to make it more understandable to people

Answer 4

For some reason Christians always seem to think they win the argument when someone says "I don't know". The answer is "I don't know". You really don't understand much about science do you? The Big Bang is simply the current prevaling theory of how it began. Not every Atheist believes in it because its frankly not that solid a Theory. The simple answer is "I don't know". That doesn't mean god did it.

Edit: How did water get on earth? You do know that it didn't spring fully formed right?

The earth was nothing but volcanoes. As it gradually cooled, the volcanoes emitted gases. The gases eventually combined to form water.

Apparently your third grade education didn't teach you a whole lot.

Answer 5

the big bang occured about 13.7 billion years ago. the universe was very hot and dense, and space expanded. large amounts of hydrogen were formed at that point. soon after the big bang, stars began to form. oxygen is formed from hydrogen by various nuclear fusion reactions in stars.

the earth formed along with the rest of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago:

http://oklo.org/?p=18

water is composed of oxygen and hydrogen (H2O). there was a fairly large amount of it in the solar nebula. water happens to be liquid on earth. venus probably had water initially, but lost it by the action of intense solar rays. there is water on mars, but it's too cold so it's all present as ice. most of the water in the solar system is still in the outer solar system, in comets. earth's oceans are a tiny fraction of this, so if anything the 'purpose' of water appears to be to make a lot of comets.

Answer 6

To try explaining all the Big Bang Model would be too complicated to even start. But think of the beginning point as a singularity. All matter, all energy, all space, all time, everything at one single dimensionless point with no thing of any sort around it at all, not even nothing there, not even a there to be there...
Then everything from that one dimensionless point suddenly expanded everywhere at once into the universe and it is still expanding.
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I agree that water is special to our life along with carbon.

I think that what is more important is the position on the energy gradient though. Everything that happens happens on an energy slope. From high energy to low energy.
Plants get energy from the sun and waste a lot of it as they convert H2O and CO2 into proteins and starches, we eat plants and animals wasting a lot of energy in building our bodies and reproducing.
Each step in the food chain wastes about 90% of the available energy in its conversion process.
I guess an easy analogy would be a series of hydro electric dams all on a river and all generating electricity from that river as it flows to the Sea.

I can not imagine what might be considered as life farther up the energy slope or lower down it. We only know life from out narrow band of the energy gradient. I suspect that if gases at different temperatures and pressures could organize into life there would be Gas creatures living on Jupiter, but I doubt if we would ever be able to recognize them as a life form.
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Sorry if I went off topic. Yes water from hydrogen. The most common element in the universe. Plus oxygen from the insides of collapsing and exploding stars. All spead out in space. Condensing and forming lumps because of gravity. Some as lumps of ice, some as gases trapped by coming into a planet's gravity field.

Answer 7

"Given enough time, gravity can do the job of building stars and galaxies and larger structures," says Borrill, "so long as the right sort of initial perturbations occurred in the density of the very early universe. One candidate for causing those perturbations is the semilocal string."

Borrill stresses that semilocal strings are not to be confused with the fundamental entities of string theory, which may give rise to the particles of the subatomic world. Rather they are related to other putative inhabitants of the very early universe, cosmic strings. While cosmic strings are purely a product of the topology of the vacuum, however, semilocal strings involve a complex interplay of quantum matter and force fields.

"Semilocal strings are more complicated," says Borrill. "They are like magnetic tubes with north and south poles. They originate in a four-dimensional vacuum; it takes eight quantum fields to construct them—four matter fields and four force fields."

What traditional cosmic strings and semilocal strings have in common is a link to phase transitions in the early universe. In a way analogous to expanding water vapor, which condenses to liquid water and then freezes to ice, all the disparate forces seen today—electromagnetism, the weak force, the strong force, and gravity—"condensed" from the single, unified force that existed at the moment of the Big Bang. During these phase changes strings could have been generated, and with them the primordial density fluctuations that were the seeds of large-scale structure.

http://www.lbl.gov/cs/Archive/headlines6-30-98.html

Answer 8

Water is a molecule made up of two hyrdogens and oxygen atoms. Hydrogen and oxygen came from the sun and landed on earth. Eventually the two combined and that is where water came from.

Answer 9

The elements are all the byproduct of older stars and the initial heat of the big bang. Water is quite common if you look around the solar system.

Answer 10

Atoms are formed from the Big Bang and from the "ovens" of supernova. These atom interact with each other. Under certain conditions hydrogen and oxygen bond together to form water molecules. If the conditions are right lots of this water can form and collect.

The rest, as they say, is history.