Question: How was the earth made

Mark Ritchie answered on 29 Apr 2016:

This is a tough one because there are lots of theories. The most common one is that after the big bang, expanding gas clouds began to develop clusters of gas molecules which began to get bigger because their gravity attracted more gas molecules. Some clusters, called “protostars” (proto- means “before”)got so big and hot that hydrogen molecules began to combine to make helium, and the energy released was emitted as light and heat, creating what we would call a star. Some stars were also near smaller clusters, called “protoplanets” which were doing their own attracting due to gravity, even as they were attracted to the soon star to be. Because all these clusters were moving at the same time, some went into orbit around the star. Eventually, most of the gas was attracted to the star and protoplanets, forming solar systems.
If you believe in a Creator, there’s nothing about the above process of gravity and orbit formation that is inconsistent with idea that a Creator made the universe. We can “create” a cake, but we don’t literally put every molecule of the cake in place; instead we put the right ingredients (sugars, starches, fats, water, baking soda) in the right environment (oven temperature) and the cake forms itself following the rules of chemistry and thermodynamics. Likewise, there’s nothing to say that a Creator didn’t set conditions for our universe that allowed the stars and planets to make themselves following the rules of science.