• Question: Being a scientist, how do you believe the earth was created?

    Asked by Aniela_Chloe. to Matthew, Neil, Paula, Pete, Philippa on 15 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Philippa Jefferis

      Philippa Jefferis answered on 15 Mar 2015:

      My understading is based on the big bang theory – not the TV show! So as a result of that, there was lots of material flying around colliding into each other, then due to gravity theses stayed together and grew into a planet.

    • Photo: Neil Taylor

      Neil Taylor answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Hi!

      This is not my area of expertise, but my understanding is much like Philippa’s – that there was a bunch of material in space from the Big Bang that collapsed due to gravity. This formed the sun, and caused the remaining material to spin around the sun and eventually bind together due to gravity. The Earth was one of the bodies formed from this process.

      Hope this helps! 😀

    • Photo: Pete Symons

      Pete Symons answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      Hi Aniela,

      I’m more of an engineer than I scientist, but the two are definitely related! I’ve watched quite a bit of Professor Brian Cox TV programs and he reckons that it was formed by big lumps of rocks smashing into each other and eventually having enough mass to generate its own gravity, this then allowed an atmosphere to be kept and then water and then life….

      I’m missing loads of detail here but I think this sounds pretty credible as a way for the earth to have been formed as we know it today!

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