God Arises
Nature and Science Speak about God
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water did not fall from the sky; rather, water
vapor whistled out of the crust and then
condensed. The oceans formed from below,
not from above.
What geologists mainly dispute now is the
rate at which the oceans formed. Did the
water vapor all fizz out within a billion years
or less, so that the ocean has been its present
size ever since life began? Or has the process
been so slow that the ocean has been growing
all through geologic time and is still growing?
Those who maintain the ocean formed early
in the game and has been steady in size for a
long time, point out that the continents seem
to be a permanent feature of the earth. They
do not appear to have been much larger in the
past, when the ocean was supposedly, much
smaller.
On the other hand, those who maintain the
ocean has been growing steadily point out
that volcanic eruptions even today pour
quantities of water vapour into the air; water
vapor derived from deep-lying rocks, not
