How did the earth and solar system come into being?

Was the earth and the universe formed by a mighty big bang from unknown materials, method, and motive? Some argue for more than one big bang. Some defer explaining the origin of matter by arguing for a big bang appearance occuring between pre-existing elements (or universes) separated by membranes of unknown force or material and within another dimension.

Creationists and Evolutionist have both staked their claims, formed themselves into bands and into larger rough armies and are doing battle in the churches, schools, governments and courts. Some of the bands are hard core and in the front line, others are on the wings or in reserve as they have an idea of what they think is true but are not fully convinced and therefore not fully committed. Some are there because they are fighting for their beliefs and what they perceive as the truth. Others have ulterior motives.

Some creationists will argue that the earth was created in six days. Other creationists will use Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8 and infer that a thousand years of our time is like a day to the Lord and that it took six thousand years to create the earth.

Some evolutionists say that the earth is billions of years old and the various plant species, marine life and birds, insects and animals evolved either serially or jointly over time. Both camps could be partly right and partly wrong. Read the first 20 verses of Genesis Chapter 1 and note the specific order of events.

• Where was the author of Genesis at the time the earth was formed?
• If Moses was the author then he couldn’t have been  a witness.
• Did Moses’ use of days mean a day as governed by the earth’s solar system?
• Although God is omnipresent God couldn’t have been on the earth and restricted to its dimensions before he made it any more than a carpenter can sit on a chair before he makes it or while he makes it.

The Hebrew for Genesis is Bereshit and it means beginning. The first verse goes something like ‘bereshit bara elohim et hashamayin v’et h’aretz‘. This means in rough English ‘it began with gods creating the heavens and the earth’. Elohim gods is the plural form of Elohi god. The account of the beginning goes on to say that the earth was formless and empty and darkness was over the surface of the deep and the spirit of the gods was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Where were the gods standing/sitting at the beginning? The beginnings’ account says that the spirit of the gods was hovering over the waters which covered the whole earth as there was no dry ground at that time – dry ground didn’t appear until verse 9.

The frame of reference for “the first day” was evening and morning. Whose evening and morning? Not the earth’s as we know it today because the sun and moon didn’t exist yet, the gods didn’t set them in place until the fourth day – see verse 14. Light was created during the first day and as stated above, before the sun and the moon which came into being on the fourth day.

Whether a Creationist or Big Bang supporter, the beginning is problematic in that if you try to start with a substance then it begs the question “OK, but where did that come from?” One answer in a nutshell is Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The approximate formula for defining the amount of energy we can derive from mass is E=MC2. Energy = Mass x the square of the speed of Light. Transposing this we get M=E/C2 Mass = Energy divided by the square of the speed of Light. Some forms of Light appear to have substance, but the speed of light doesn’t and it is constant. Therefore if the formula holds true then mass and energy are interchangeable. The argument and counter-argument can go on and on – but its all relative and man wasn’t there at the beginning or the big bang (what blew up?), but it happened somehow and the formula suggests that mass was produced from energy. The mass that makes up the heavens and the earth was produced from energy. OK, what form of energy – potential, kinetic, thermal, chemical, electrical, electrochemical, electromagnetic, nuclear, sound, light? These forms of energy whether transient or stored require a form of mass or matter to exist. Some say that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but that it can be transformed from one form of energy to another.

Who or What triggered a pure form of energy to change into mass? Who was the enactor if not Elohim? Could it be that God speaks and things happen?

Some big bang theorists say there was only one big bang and from that everything in the universe appeared. Other big bang theorists say that there were several big bangs, all unrelated. Others say the big bangs were related. Consider this – all the physical laws and all the properties of the elements would come into existence at the instance that the matter appeared. If the big bangs were unrelated it is imperceivable that at some juncture or border between objects formed by each big bang that two sets of physical laws could coexist. If the big bangs were unrelated then it is imperceivable that all the physical laws and all the properties of the elements would be exactly the same in each big bang, unless there was an enactor with incredible intelligence. Obviously the atheistic big bang theorists are very firm on the theory that there was only one big bang. Ask God back.