THE ORIGIN OF THE EARTH
Robert C. Newman

SCIENTIFIC DATA TO BE FIT IN EXPLAINING EARTH & SOLAR SYSTEM

Sun has most of mass in solar system (ratio 750:1)

Planets have most of  angular momentum (200:1)

Planetary orbits
Nearly circular
In same plane
Rotation counterclockwise (from North) (same as sun's rotation)

Sun is large but lightweight for size (1.5 g/cc)
So are outer planets (ave 1.5 g/cc)
Inner planets small but heavy (ave 5 g/cc)
Inner planets made of non-volatile materials sun and outer planets of volatile


PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC THEORY OF SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGIN

Planets formed along with sun
From thin, shapeless cloud of gas and dust

As cloud contracted:
Became dark inside
Began to flatten
Heats up as it contracts
Finally beginning to glow from heat ionizing gas

Electric charges produce magnetic fields

These wind up, transfering angular momentum allowing center to become rounder (proto-sun) outside to push away as disk (planetary disk)

Dust in disk condenses:

Close-in if dust is non-volatile
Far-out if dust is volatile
Particles collide cold to form planets

Earth's atmosphere and oceans produced:
From inside planet by out-gassing as earth heats up
Atmosphere oxygenated by plant life


CORRELATION OF GENESIS ONE & SCIENTIFIC THEORY
BIBLICAL MATERIAL  SCIENTIFIC THEORY
In beginning, God created
h & e (Gen 1:1)
 A beginning, probably the nobounce 
big-bang
Earth w/o form, void (1:2)  Earth a shapeless, empty gas cloud
Darkness on face of deep After some contraction, dark within
Spirit of God moves on waters (1:2) [Providential oversight, with  occasional intervention]
Let there be light (1:3) Cloud glows with further contraction
Light divided from dark (1:4) Planetary material moves outside  glowing cloud
Light = day, dark = night (1:5) Earth condenses from dust; sun & rotation give day-night sequence
Waters burst from womb of earth (Job 38:8-9); firmament appears in midst of waters (Gen 1:6) Earth heated within by radioactivity, driving out water and gases to produce (nonbreathable) atmosphere
Division of waters above & below firmament (1:6-7) Presence of atmosphere allows bothsuface and atmospheric water
Gathering of waters, dry land appears (1:9-10) Continental material develops from sub-oceanic by vulcanism, erosion
Earth brings forth  vegetation (1:11-12) Land vegetation appears
Lights appear in sky to mark days, etc., to dominate day & night Photosynthesis by vegetation replaces CO2 by oxygen, lowering temperature and clearing atm so sun, etc. visible


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Oxford: Pergamon, 1968.

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London: Lion Publishing, 1985.

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Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1972.

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New York: Doubleday, 1962.

Newman, Robert C. and Herman J. Eckelmann. Genesis One and the Origin of the Earth.
Hatfield, PA: IBRI, 1989.

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Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1983.