Position Paper: The Formation of Earth and The Evolution of Life
Position Paper: The Formation of Earth and The Evolution of Life
Position Paper: The Formation of Earth and The Evolution of Life
Aug. 6, 2016
SCENCO 203
Patadlas, MA.
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the moon has less iron content than the earth, since its entirely made of the earths
crust. This invalidates that the moon developed the same way the earth did.
A million years later, the first continents and oceans began to emerge as a result
of the continuous bombardment of meteorites containing water and amino acids the
building blocks of life. The oldest rocks in the world or banded iron formations and
meteorite samples can prove this. The earths atmosphere 3.5 billion years ago was very
toxic. It contained Sulfur, Sulfuric acid, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide. Stromatolites that
look like weird coral structures were then developed in oceans or shallow waters. These
are made of billions of microbes called Cyanobacteria, which generate oxygen through
photosynthesis. They have the ability to take in sunlight and water and produce oxygen
as a byproduct. Oxygen was very poisonous to some other life forms, since theyre not
used to it. Regardless of this, Stromatolites were still able to materialize excess oxygen,
enough to oxygenate the atmosphere. From hereon, the life forms that we know started
to emerge, such as forests, animals or just nature in general. Decaying plant matter from
forests built up compressed layers and produced coal, oil, and gas deposits. Skeletons of
marine animals that accumulated at the bottom of the shallow seas produced
sedimentary rocks like chalk and limestone. Everything else evolved into what we know
in present time.
In a nutshell, everything started from a vacuum, to small particles igniting a big
bang thatd form the universe. From the big bang came the universe, space, time, matter
and energy that would all develop into galaxies, solar systems, and so forth. From our
solar system, the earth and life as we know it will be formed out of the dust orbiting the
sun. If you have ever wanted to believe in God, but certainly did not want to do so in
contradiction of known scientific facts, science provides you reason to believe that God
exists and powerfully created all things.