God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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together at the same time that the sun itself
was being formed. The earth was never at sun
temperature, but it did grow quite warm
through the energies of collision of all the
particles that formed it. It grew warm enough
so that its relatively small mass could not hold
an atmosphere or water vapor to begin with.
The solid body of the newly formed earth
had, in other words, neither atmosphere nor
ocean. Where then did they come from?
There existed water (and gases) in loose
combination with the rocky substances
making up the solid portion of the globe. As
that solid portion packed together more and
more tightly under the pull of gravity, its
interior grew hotter and hotter. Water vapor
and gas were forced out of combination with
the rock, and came fizzing out from its
substance.
The gaseous bubbles, forming and collecting,
racked the baby earth with enormous quakes:
escaping heat produced violent volcanic
eruptions. For unnumbered years, liquid
