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Planets and stars are formed through fusion caused by extreme gravitational pressure.
You had a pretty good under standing in the comment you left in your last question. You can actually watch the formation of distant planets with powerful telescopes. and get a sense of what a very young universe looked like because the light from these systems is only just now reaching the earth. And is millions of billions of years old. It took that long to reach us here on earth so it like a glimpse into the past.

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random collisions of rock,dust and debris

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The big bang.

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A flying spaghetti moster made the world

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God made earth

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I think he was looking for a factual answer.
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I think you're just going to dis on every single persons answer.
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Not every answer.
The ones that aren't based in reality, I probably will.
Oh, and that one guy that said life is a program, I didn't dis him.
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Another question that will cause some minor..... Arguments. I believe God created earth.

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Scientists believe that about one hundred billion years ago the Earth, the Sun, and all the planets of the Solar System were nothing but a cloud of cold dust particles swirling through empty space. Gradually, these particles were attracted to each other and came together to form a huge spinning disk. As it spun, the disk separated into rings and the furious motion made the particles white-hot. The center of the disk became the sun, and the particles in the outer rings turned into large fiery balls of gas and molten-liquid that cooled and condensed to take on solid form. Four or five billion years ago, they turned into the planets that we know today as Earth, Mars, Venus, and the outer planets.

For more information watch the opening theme song for the show "The Big Bang Theory"

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Wonderfully put.
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Yes! But it was 14.5 billion years ago, not 100.
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He's talking about the beginning for time not just earth we have therories about when that was but not factual evidence so he could very well be right. Besides he said "about" 100 billions years ago cause he's not sure unlike you stating 14.5 billion years ago like you were there to see it happen.
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What I have read states that the Big Bang happened about 14 billion years ago (which would also be the beginning of time), and Earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
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All of the scientific community agrees the big bang occurred around 14 to 15 billion years ago, if you know of anything having happened before that you have a Nobel prize waiting for you.
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Do you guys even understand the science behind that theroy? They believe this because SOME scientist believe that the flash of light from the big bang is still traveling through space. light travels at a known speed and starting from what WE BELIEVE to be the middle of the universe you get a distance. calculating that distance times the speed of light you get a time, but that is by no means concrete evidence and definetly not an idea shared by ALL in the scientific community.
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@Sykosis: You are correct in how the estimated age of the universe is determined, but the consensus in the scientific community is that it was around 14 billion years ago based on studies of the phenomena you mentioned. But 100 billion years is not in the ball park of that consensus--not that there aren't scientists who subscribe to that estimate. Its just that there aren't going to very many who do.
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These are the simplest and shortest articles I could dig up:
www.umich.edu/~gs265/bigbang.htm
and
www.big-bang-theory.com
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Well ... some programmers were told they needed to create a simulation ... and our reality is the result.

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still a better theory than "god did it".
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But who created the programmers?
Other, more advanced programmers.
But who created THEM?
We will ... Humanity is it's own grandfather.
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Well, with this theory, you don't have to answer "who created the programmers" because in order to become broader, you must first ask "who/what are the programmers" and you will be stopped by an infinite number of possibilities.
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God created earth

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And God said...

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Let there be light!!!
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And there was light. ;)
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Yeah!
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I see you've been a goon boy, reading his bible. Lol
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Goon? What's a goon? Lol
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Good**** D@MN!!!!!!!!!!! :O
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Lol. It's ok I knew what you meant.
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Have either of you actually read the bible?
Like, physically, literally read the bible...word for word?
Because I have, and most atheists became atheists, after they read the bible.
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Great. I don't care.
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It's a simple question.
Because it seems pretty odd that people against your religion, know more about it than you.
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Wow. And all the atheists want to do is get rid of all religion, forever, because they don't believe in freedom of religion. Shut up. Go away.
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I'm amazed that you can't answer the question.
Not all atheists want is to be rid of religion.
I, on the other hand, find it odd that some adults still believe in fairy-tales.
I would be much happier if other people could join together in actual scientific research without that one guy going "you're sinning, what you're doing is going to put you in hell".
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Well sir I've read the bible through at least 3 times.
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Have you?
And what of the Virgin Mary? A woman cannot have a child without insemination.
What of the conflicting quotes "I have seen the face of god" and "No one has ever seen the face of god"?
There are simply so many flaws, that even when looked at as a novel, it is a terrible novel.
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Original text says "a god" when referring to "I have seen the face of god" which is another way to say angel. And about Mary.... if God is real, I think he can make a woman pregnant.
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Well, if you think that god can do anything, then why did he not simply create his own child? Why did he use a woman?
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Well for one it was to fulfill the prophecies and to show that God uses the humble things....
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Because, if He just made a man people will wonder where this man came from, He decided it would be better to have the child born like any other child.
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Hmm too confused by our logic?
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So, instead of people asking "where did this guy come from" it's better that this womans husband ask "who knocked you up?"
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Well, they told no one. In fact a lot of people believed that Jesus was Joseph's actual son.
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Sure why not. But let me tell you, it was illegal to have a baby before marriage back then, and they didn't talk like that, Gods angel appeared to both Mary and Joseph in a dream and said "you will have a child". So really, you're just denying truth, and you said you don't know how adults can believe fairy-tales? Well neither of us are adults yet, so that was pointless for you to say.
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And Joseph was visited by an angel so he had faith that she was with no man. Lol
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When I said "adults" I meant christian adults in general.
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Big Bang -> dust

Dust is pulled together my gravity slowly making spherical planets

Earth cools

Asteroid hit leaving elements and compounds like water

Autotrophs develop

Co2 atmoshere is turned into a lot of o2 then.. Dinosaurs

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God created it.

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God made it

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Space collisions
Time
And thanks to our sun
Life
And water -

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It was formed by the matter that remained after our sun was formed. Objects coalesced to become larger and larger increasing its mass and attracting other objects until everything within the gravitational effect zone of Earth was joined together in what is now Earth. As it cooled gases became trapped and formed our atmosphere, ice bearing comets bombarded the Earth and gave us the water we have today. The rest of the story can be found in geologic history.

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Genesis 1
New International Version (NIV)

The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (just like the Big Bang asteroid, then we move to the stage of the Earth before any living creature existed). 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

There you go. That s how the World come to be. The Bible doesnt talk about the time between the making of the universe and the world because its not really important. Tho, if you wanna know how the Earth got in shape, well, just ask. Gby

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God put them there

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God created this *waves arms in circle*. :D

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God spoke it in to existence in 6 literal 24 hour days resting on the 7 day calling it the Sabbath.

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